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Old Tue Dec 15, 2009, 08:28am
Smitty Smitty is offline
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Originally Posted by truerookie View Post
Why are you waving off the shot if the play happens like you describe it?
Because the contact happened about 3 dribbles from when the player shot the uncontested layup. The moral of the story is that had I watched the play through, I would have seen that the player had a free layup and held my whistle. What I ended up doing was taking away that free layup because I blew the whistle on minor contact that did not create any advantage for the defense.

As far as your fable, in hindsight, I would not have made the call regardless of the outcome of the layup. If he misses the free layup, that's his problem - the earlier contact had no bearing on that.
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