Interesting out of bounds play (Video)
 

I would like to have a discussion on all aspects of this play. I will give my opinion later.

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I thought it was weird live that C made the call. Call was correct but he didn't even give the lead a chance.

The discussion, presumably, was about whether the shot clock should be reset based on Paige's play being considered "control." Did it stay at 16 when play resumed?

And it was definitely odd for the C to blow the Lead's endline. Maybe that was another aspect of the discussion.

Those were the two things that came to mind for me, but I'm sure I'm missing a few.

I do not think he made the call, the ball went out of bounds on the C's sideline. I think he was indicating he saw the player first.

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Don't know where the Lead was, but pretty sure the C was calling OOB for the endline play. And he was arguing that the shot clock should be reset due to possession being established by the UNC player.

Center made the call because lead had nothing. C must have felt it was too obvious to let go. The last replay shows the whistle is blown and Ball is on court. He wasn't making a sideline OB call. They were likely talking also about whether, as someone said, the shot clock should reset.

This is really an odd play. Lead didn't think the ball was OOB. No whistle and He wasn't asking for help. It wasn't an OOB play where the ball ricochets off several people. Looking real speed I'm not so sure this play was sooo obvious that Center had to come in with a whistle.

It wasn't that obvious to the L. Put yourself in his spot. The L is on the farside of the endline. The UNC player has the ball on the right side of his body thus the L has an obscured/closed look of the ball. The L would most likely be guessing if the ball was still in the UNC player's hand when the foot landed. My supervisor instructed he would rather not call a violation that actually did occur than to call a violation that did not occur.

The shotclock should reset if the UNC player threw the ball back on the court (establishing team control) and play continued. Since the crew ruled the UNC landed on the court with the ball, no reset should occur.

Agree with part 1.

As to part 2, I wouldn't say he landed on the court with the ball. I would say the ball was in contact with him when he landed on the court. There wasn't enough for me to declare control at the instant the ball became dead. So I agree with no reset, but I would have worded your argument a little differently.


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I said "the C must have felt it was too obvious." I didn't say it was or should have been obvious to the L or anyone else. C is looking right at it. It may very well have been a "you can't do that" reaction from the C. Reflex call.

As far as the shot clock---if the UNC player possessed the ball before his foot hit out of bounds the clock should reset. I don't really think he did.

That's control and a reset in my game.


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The out of bounds call is correct. The C needed to help here.

The shot clock question is less clear. The player is juggling the ball. I don't believe that he ever caught it, so I would only rule that he was in contact with it and not reset the shot clock. Of course, I get to watch it ten times on video replay.

(The Lead's look at this play is similar to what he has on many block/charge crashes in the lane. I now think that officiating should rethink how we handle b/c plays in the paint. We need to recognize that sometimes the C has the best look.)

I strongly think it actually takes two angles to always properly judge some block/charge plays. Most of the time, one angle is sufficient. However, there is always some direction of defensive movement that can be very difficult to see form any one position....that direction being along the line if sight from the official to the defender.

If you're looking at a block/charge play from the side (as is often the case with the C) and the question is whether the defender made it into the path in time or whether the defender leaned outside of his/her vertical space, that can be best left to someone with a different and better view.

Regardless of the angle, if an official sees an action that makes it a block, it is a block,. However, not seeing an action that would make it a block doesn't necessarily meant it isn't.