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Old Wed Jun 16, 2010, 05:37pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by bainsey View Post
What's everyone's opinion about a succinct explanation: "The block was clean, the body was not."?
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Originally Posted by Nevadaref View Post
I think it's a terrible reason to call a foul and even worse as an explanation to a coach or player. If all of the people in the gym can see that the ball was blocked cleanly, calling a foul for body contact is not going to be accepted.
I agree with Nevada on this. I think that is a bad explanation.

If you work a lot of boy's basketball and this is a common call, then I think you will get run out of that level quickly. This is really the case when you have really tall and physical players that will have opponents bounce off of them on a regular basis. Maybe that works with girl's basketball (as I do not call those games), but on the boy's side this will get you killed.

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