NC v Louisville

[Nevadaref]

1. What Rut wrote in his second post in this sequence is vastly different from what he said in the first one (quoted above by JetMet). In the first he wrote that he would just give the play to the offense which is in blatant disregard of the rule. His second post is reasonable in stating that the official did not deem (or perhaps did not see) the contact prior to the jump and catch as a rising to the level of a foul (I disagree and believe that it is a clear holding foul, but understand if the Lead couldn't see this from where he was.) and only thought that the body bump after the catch was worthy of a whistle.

2. I don't believe that your understanding of Start/Develop/Finish is accurate. This is exemplary of the problem that occurs when someone comes up with a teaching philosophy which is then perverted by hundreds of camp clinicians across the country. They either fail to properly teach the entire content of the philosophy or alter it to their personal taste, thus ruining it.

SDF does not mean to wait and see what happens on a play, only giving a whistle if it is needed. Nor does it mean that marginal contact becomes illegal when it puts one player at a disadvantage. Those are different philosophies of which we can debate the merits in another thread as they are beyond the scope of this post.

So what does SDF mean? First and foremost, SDF only applies during a drive to the basket by a ballhandler. The player already has the ball at the "Start" phase. If illegal contact, such as a handcheck or blocking foul, occurs now officials are instructed to whistle this quickly and make the call right away. Next comes the Develop phase in which the ballhandler is moving towards the goal and seems to have an advantageous position on the defender, but has not yet begun the act of shooting. The philosophy is to hold the whistle during this phase unless the contact is severe so as not to negate the better position of the offensive player and benefit the beaten defender as a whistle at this point would deprive the attacker of a quality scoring opportunity and result in either a throw-in or bonus FTs. Finally, we reach the Finish phase. At this point the offensive player is in the act of shooting and any contact which is occuring, whether continuous or continual from the development phase, can be penalized without unfairly depriving the offensive player of the opportunity to score.
Officials are taught to whistle either in the Start or Finish phases, but not in the Develop phase.
This does not equate to either the wait & see or advantage/disadvantage ways of thinking.