When to Kill a Play for an Apparent Injury

Originally Posted by BigT

I was doing sign language for 13 years and body language and other cues are huge. I use them in basketball. If I see the defenders arms tighten when that foul happens or as someone said the player arches on his own because he realizes he is too deep under the basket. All of that is taken into account including other plays that game. Just way too much judgement here and our camera angle isnt great. I do know this. Just listening to JRut for years... he has good judgement and I am going with his call every time.

What does your analysis of the body language clues tell you?

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by AremRed

What does your analysis of the body language clues tell you?

Well when a player does something unnatural or something they would not normally do with their body and contact took place, then it is a foul. We can always suggest that it did not change anything, but a player does not bow their back to make a normal shot. It would not be surprised me if he missed the shot, but he didn't and I am not waiting in this instance to see, so I called the foul. It is not always about the severity of the contact. Ironically I was back at the same school and we had several plays with much more contact and legal defenders and we called nothing in those cases.

Peace