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Hawks Coach -
As always, I couldn't agree with you more.
As to the "tagging-up" references, I don't think that has been well addressed in this thread at all, but is worth mentioning.
I do agree with Rut to a certain extent, that advantage/disadvantage, north-south v. east-west, and the ability of the players should have an impact on the "hand-checking" call, BUT with that said, i do think "tagging" is an aspect of the game that must be addressed early.
here's why...player a2 is constantly being tagged by b2 (i.e., b2 touches the hip, drops the hand, touches the hip, drops the hand, touches the hip, drops the hand) while he/she is dribbling up court.
at some point a2 gets annoyed/upset/frustrated with the constant "tagging" and begins to swat the defenders arm away. the defender continues to "tag."
now a2, extremely frustrated, uses a forearm or elbow to displace and clear away from b2...
what do you do now? do you call an offensive foul for the big-time displacement? do you call the hand-check that you should have called 5-seconds ago (thus preventing the displacement)? do you have a no call?
For those of you who didn't see it, a similar situation happened in the first half of the Louisville-Kentucky game last week.
My point is this...displacement and ad/disad are keys, but we need to do a better job of recognizing and calling the "tags" because if we don't, we're often left with a situation that is much worse.
Jake
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