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I thought of another example for deecee's officiating philosophy.
A1 attempts bank shot. B1 jumps, takes a swing at the ball, but misses and strikes the backboard.
Applying deecee's philosophy this is bad defense and should result in a technical foul because the player smacked the backboard. The rest of us would use our judgment to discern if the player made a legitimate attempt to block the shot as the NFHS rules and case plays say.
I believe that this situation provides another clear example of how basketball officiating requires making judgments of the players' actions and cannot be done by defaulting to some philosophy of good & bad offense or defense.
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