Fun With Excessive Contact …

[Camron Rust]

Common foul and I'm not sure why it would even be a question. This is garden variety defensive contact. Do we really want to turn this into volleyball?

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Common foul and I'm not sure why it would even be a question. This is garden variety defensive contact. Do we really want to turn this into volleyball?

The question is because there has been such a focus on player safety, we over-exaggerate when safety is supposed to be emphasized. The very same thing happens in football where we used to penalize every hit to the head, even if other things factored into the play and the rule. So people think any foul that puts someone down hard, it must be an intentional foul in nature, when for decades this was a garden variety foul. Rarely do players get upset even on this kind of foul, because the player is just trying to stop the basket. He made a mistake, but nothing needs to be upgraded.

I get it, we also do not do a good job being consistent on calling these either, but we have people that think they have to save the day and rule everything higher than a common foul.

That is why IMO we people are debating this.

Peace