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Old Wed Jul 30, 2008, 08:27pm
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Originally Posted by MOofficial
Just listened to John Adams speak about his theroy on the block charge under the basket. I have never heard it put this way but after he said this it made so much sense.

For those of you who dont know, John is the newly appointed NCAA National Coordiator of Officials, bascially he runs the Tournament in March.

Here is what John said:

The offensive players goal is to try and score the basketball and the job of the defense is to prevent the offense from scoring, then how can the defense be preventing the offense from scoring when standing under the basket trying to take a charge when the ball is out of the offesive players hand for a layup.

Basically what thats saying is that instead of having an arc drawn on the floor, that play is a block everytime. No matter how long they were standing there. After hearing that I fully agree with that philosophy
What a piece of garbage. If the NCAA really cared to follow this approach, they would add the NBA circle. I think even in the NBA it's a no-call (or possible charge) if the primary defender is in the RA.
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