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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
Here's my recommendation. If you see any contact, I'd be willing to accept a blocking foul on this.
But I prefer a warning.
Just last week, I had a kid pull this. I was C, and as we were heading the other way I go this attention and told him not to do it again. He pretended he didn't know what I was talking about, but he didn't do it again.
If, after one warning, he does it again, ring him up. It'll stop.
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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
Then how could you advocate calling a block on a flop?  |
I don't advocate it; but I understand some locales prefer it done this way. I've never called a block on this. I no-call it when the player falls with marginal contact. 88% of the time the coach gets the message without me saying a word, and yells at his player to stay in there. 11% off the time, the coach says nothing. The other 1%, I ignore.
If I worked in a locale who wanted it done with a blocking call, they'd only get one and it would come with a verbal warning to the coach as I reported the foul.
While I don't like the idea of calling a phantom foul here, I'm not going to tell an official to go against the accepted practice in his area; no matter how stoopid I think that practice may be.