[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

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

MOfficial:

Based upon the fact that you made the above post at 08:03pmEDT. Can I assume that you heard John talk about his block/charge philosophy at the NASO Officiating Summit in Cleveland, Ohio.

MTD, Sr.