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In my HO, i think the advantage/disadvantage concept with respect to contact had a lot to do with the physical aspect of basketball that the pros, college and hs seem to keep saying to clean up in their POE. When did this concept come into basketball officiating talk?
I do not recall reading that concept this year but have heard at least one official use it this year when we were discussing a play in a game.
Good players can play great defense with none to very light contact (fly weight contact) if they know that this is what is expected.
I have seen college games where there is a lot of contact where no shot is occuring or a bump out a mid court or of a player near an OOB line and the slight contact causes him to go out of bounds and nothing is called but when a player shoots and is touched with the weight of a fly or a slight bump the whistle 99.9% of the time goes off. That to me is a bunch of crap. What changed here to call a foul where earlier there was greater contact with no shot and no call. Seems like a double standard to me.
I have the perception that in the late 70's many fouls were called that are ignored today.
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