Charge Or Block

[Dad]

Originally Posted by VaTerp

I'm not sure why people keep talking about this as if its even a block/charge situation worthy of discussion. Forget "to and through", the first question we should be asking in block/charge situations is "was the defender legal."

On this play the defender is clearly not legal so if there is a call to be made here, its clearly a block from the angle we have on the video.

But the T here, despite being horribly out of position, still has a better look between the players than the camera angle we have. And if there was a quick elbow by the dribbler he could have seen it. People are also talking about how awkwardly the defender fell. Which could be typical bad girls basketball or could be the result of an elbow from the offensive player.

Again, if there isnt something that we cant see on camera then this is one of the worst PC calls of all time. I understand that people are questioning the calling official b/c of his positioning, mechanics, and even the black band on his wrist.

But given the choice between there being something here we cant see and this being one of the worst PC calls of all time, I'm going to give the guy the benefit of the doubt and say there was probably something there we didn't see.

I find it a little odd that on this forum where we generall try to give some the benefit of the doubt to the calling official in these videos, people are so willing to think that he made what IMO would have to be one of the worst PC calls in recent memory.

Well said, except....

Oh I've seen some PC calls that would make you recant