Pick and Roll Follow Up, Posting Up

[ryan330i]

Originally posted by Dan_ref

Knowing the rules well enough to enjoy playing the game is one thing. Getting paid to officiate the game is quite another - there's no way for you to know this but some of the folks participating in this tiresome discussion got further than officiating small school JV HS ball. Way further.

I have browsed enough threads to recognize that there are officials here that referee up to Div I college. I haven't seen any references to pro ball, but I assume that is entirely possible.

I have not and would not pretend to offer advice on the rules of basketball, and only in comparison to referees on this board, do lack knowledge in the rules of basketball. That makes me uninformed on a rules question, but basketball is more than just rules. There is no rule for proper jump shot technique, and no rule describes how to best block someone out.

Another post I found interesting was how a player declined to answer a question of "do you understand?" to the referee and that thread was a subjective one, in which no rule in the book could answer.

Where I come from we have a word for an uninformed person who stubbornly refuses to take advice from an expert.
Jerk. [/B]

The advice I was given was that the dynamics of what I was describing would be a foul. I accepted that advice wholly with the simple disclaimer that I wasn't accurately explaining what I though proper block out technique was, and if I could, we wouldn't be disagreeing, because obviously proper block out technique doesn't result in fouls, in my experience.

Beyond that, things basically descended into name calling.

To that, I'm not entirely sure you are implying or expressing I am a jerk, but if so, more power to you. If not, I took it that way wrongly.