Duke @ Louisville Transition Block Called by Lead

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I think this is the default call for many officials and if we look at the mentality of most people in the game (not officials) they think any call like this should be on the defender.

I also think that he probably was not "refereeing the defense" and the contact blew up on him and he called what he knew and called a block. I do not think the rule has much to do with this call. I think he called what was "safe" and calling a charge in this situation usually brings more scrutiny.

And if you listen to a few of the videos I posted recently, Jay Bilas feels the exact same way about most of these plays. That is why when I call a block on any play like this, I hear the same rhetoric about what the defender did not do. It is not so much about the rule as it is about what are you going to get crap about and scrutinized.

Peace

In this official's defense...full speed, transition, close-up floor level view...he made a split second decision. I don't think it's a default position to call block here. Quite possibly he didn't think defender was legal (again at full speed in real time). I can live with this one...hardly what I'd consider a "bad" call.