How far will you go to save a game?

[blindzebra]

Originally posted by jbduke
I can already tell we're never going to agree on this part of the issue. In a transition situation, I think it's just a horrible idea to prescribe that the slot official check up and trail a dribbler racing up his sideline when a trap may materialize. What about the potential block-charge developing? Your mechanic sends the slot directly into a stack, you've given the trail even less opportunity to be useful than he already had, and now you can rely only on the lead, fifty feet away, for help on this play. Disastrous, disastrous mechanic recommendation. The present system accounts for this situation as well as possible.

Unlike the stack the C found himself in, in your play?

This is no different than if the same play was coming down trail's side, by your logic trail...in spite of what the name suggests...should sprint and be even with the ball.

By staying even the C forced himself into a stack with the play happening right in their lap. No place to go, no room to adjust their angle.

C either needs to beat the play and be in front of it and have it come to him, or trail it to see the whole thing.