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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
(BTW, I'm the L)
Correct call or not, the L, whether 2-man or 3-man, has secondary defenders coming from the L's primary. It is not (to a point) where the contact occurs but where the defender came from. That defender came from the center of the lane to help with contact occurring just 1 step outside of the lane.
Once the shooter got around the primary defender, which is the T's all the way to the shot (even into the Lead's PCA), the T would have to acquire the secondary defender coming from the lead's primary...which is generally considered to be unreliable and why the L is expected to cover help defenders coming into the play from their primary. Often, as it is the case, the T's view and ability to see the secondary defender coming across the lane is at least partially blocked by both the primary defender and the offensive player the secondary defender left.
BTW, the trail didn't have a charge on that play when we talked about it at halftime....for the reasons above. He didn't pick up the secondary defender in time to know when or how he got there....he was expecting me to know.
It would be less so in 3-man since the C would have been 10-15 ft. closer to the endline than the T was on that play and would have had a better view.
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I agree, Camron. The L is expected to pick up the secondary defender(s) in a situation like this and make the call just as you did. My comment/question is why were you backing away from the play? With six players ballside it is acceptable, in fact, strongly encouraged in the NFHS manual that the Lead come across to ballside to obtain a better angle even before the ball gets that low to the endline just as we would in 3-man.