Body Displacement

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by Jurassic Referee


Why are so many people trying to apply NBA philosophies to lower level games? In the high school game, it's a foul if the contact makes the shooter hit the deck. Too much contact, you have to maybe think about intentional, but that one is judgement. The purpose and intent of the rule is to protect an airborne shooter when he's at his utmost vulnerability. If you let defenders knock airborne shooters on their a$$, then you aren't protecting them at all imo.

Well that is still a judgment call. And I can read a lot of things in the casebook you or I would never call. So using the casebook in this case is not going to solve this play. This is just a philosophy, not a one size fits all application.

Peace