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Originally Posted by luvhoops
These are actions that are necessary/required based on the defensive position. Yes, set shots were great until the defense began blocking the shots. Thus, the jump shot was required to get the ball beyond/past the defender. The same thing applies to floaters. The defense's action for the offense to do something. This is not the case with dunking the ball, specifically on that play. Yes, dunking is legal but not necessary 99% of the time. In most cases, dunking is a huge waste of physical energy.
In the play, yes, all was legal. The initial guard however should have shot the ball. He made a poor decision by not doing so. The defense did not force him to throw it off the backboard. It was completely choreographed/rehearsed and I can't imagine any real coach agreeing with it. The defense did not force any of this action in fact the offense did. Now, the receiver is decides, on his own, to dunk the ball with two hands and grab the rim with two hands.
What poor decision did he make? The one where he put himself, intentionally, in an unsafe position. He decided to run fast, jump off one leg with great momentum, grab the ball with two hands, dunk the ball, then realize he was in an unsafe position, then hang on the rim.....for safety. Would any coach NOT call that play a poor decision by both offensive players?
The rules allow all of it and it is legal. It just seems weird.
The reward to me is not calling the technical. It just seems weird.
OK, topic done.
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So you make an original post who's premise i disagree with in principle. Then you come back with unrelated arugments and issues not connected to any actual rules, or purpose we are trying to serve. Then after this string of nonsense you try to declare the discussion over. Do two things for me:
1) Please do not let my wife know that her style of argument is catching on.
2) Please stop evaluating plays as a coach or as a sports fan in general. Evaluate them as the official. IF I team wants to press, run the grinnell system, chuck up bad threes, good threes, run all their plays for alley oop dunks that is on them. ONe team wants to clutch and grab. One team doesn't want to defend at all. You officiate the game in front of you. You don't reward or punish based on style of play or your sense of how the game should be played.
ps. That Calapari guy who coaches in college and has coached pros . . . he teaches kids to attack the rim and once they activated the help to throw it off the backboard for the weak side to rebound and dunk/ just straight dunk. He's a pretty good coach. I'm not sure a play that excites the home crowd by having a dunk is always a poor decision. I don't know and don't care what kind of shooter each player, I don't know and don't care what kind of offense they run. They play the game, I call the game. I don't penalize players because they choose to make basketball plays that I think aren't the basketball plays they should make.