[Joe]

Originally posted by Hawks Coach
How I am reading this is you had a primary defender, and Shaq drove toward a secondary defender who was in his line of movement and stationed outside the arc. In this and other similar (arc and non-arc) situations, if the defender is moving you will have a block, if the defender is stationary you should have a charge."

The call and situation was the later.

"And you won't normally see a clear out action."

Again, at least with Shaq, I think you do (several times a game).... but it is rarely called. I'm not saying it's an
easy call, but variations on the theme happen every night.







"If you are referring to switching defenders as one defender gets beaten, I don't know how the NBA looks at it but I consider the new guy to be the new primary defender if he picks up ball and is moving with the ball handler. The original defender is ancient history. So that's where I was coming from.