Patient Whistle

[jforgues]

I've been reading a recent thread on "Patient Whistle".

What it advocates is that in order to determine advantage/disadvantage prior to whistling a foul you should wait for the total play to un-fold.

If you determine that an offensive player was not put at a disadvantage by the foul, then you don't whistle.

I'd like people's opinion on:

1) If you apply this rule, then doesn't it mean that you would never have a "and 1" scenario. If you wait for the play to unfold, the basket would be scored, therefore there's no way a player would've been at a disadvantage (with the exception of a hard foul of course).

2) Aren't you asking from it from the fans and the coaches. You hear it all the time "late whistle ref ... you weren't sure were you???".

Jean