Block/Charge Final Second Final 4

[sdoebler]

This was the game deciding play
Pueblo West 54
Lewis Palmer 56#copreps #4Afinal4 pic.twitter.com/QdzVFniABS

— BasketballColorado (@Bball_CO) March 10, 2018

https://twitter.com/Bball_CO/status/972267116912050176

[sdoebler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=zyWZbYb99po

Here is a (poor angle) baseline video starting at ~:28.

For reference the score was white 56 black 54 at the time of this play, the clocked stopped at .1 with the whistle.

[MechanicGuy]

Man...I don't know. On multiple looks, I think it's either a block or a no-call. The baseline view shows the defended leaning to his right to make contact.

Given the time and score, I think a no-call is defensible.

[deecee]

I had a no call. Didn't look like a lot of contact and was more flop than anything. The fact that the defender fell straight down was a clear giveaway.

He would be getting the "get up" signal from me with a rolled eyeball or two.

No call for me.

[Pantherdreams]

Defense doesn't do anything wrong there, but definitely not enough to warrant a PC call on offense.

[crosscountry55]

That's super tough. The L is damned if he makes a call and damned if he doesn't. Probably a little less damned if he doesn't.

The second angle appeared to show block, but then you go back to the first angle and you don't see any movement toward the shooter at contact and we were looking almost directly perpendicular to the play. That means the defender's movement to the right must have been no more than lateral (i.e. legal).

I guess my only question is if L could have been in a better position to see the play? But that's nit-picking.

If you no-call there and the shot is missed, Black will cry block, but at the end of the day, if the ball handler tries to go through instead of up, he accepts the associated risks of that decision (including putting the game result at the discretion of an official's call or no-call). So I'm going no call here. As it turned out, ball went in, so the no call would have resulted in OT and everyone is probably satisfied. Hindsight is 20/20.