The Official Forum - If a tree falls and... If a foul occurs and...

The Official Forum (https://forum.officiating.com/)

- Basketball (https://forum.officiating.com/basketball/)

- - If a tree falls and... If a foul occurs and... (https://forum.officiating.com/basketball/25210-if-tree-falls-if-foul-occurs.html)

Quote:

Originally posted by Jurassic Referee

Quote:

Originally posted by M&M Guy

Quote:

Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
I want the blue chair with the puppy on the back.

No! I want the blue chair!

Nyah, nyah, Juulie likes me better!

Then I'm gonna cut you into 742 pieces with those dull scissors that they give us to cut paper with, and I'm gonna bury all those pieces in the sand box.

And.....then I'll sit on the blue chair with the puppy on the back.

I'm not sure how you're gonna be able to eat any more jello pudding with that cool looking mask on all the time. Good luck.

http://cache.eonline.com/Features/Aw...92.silence.jpg

I know where you live.

Quote:

Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
I know where you live.

How? Dan hasn't put his ID on the Frapper map yet. . . Coincindentally, neither have you.

Quote:

Originally posted by ChuckElias

Quote:

Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
I know where you live.

How? Dan hasn't put his ID on the Frapper map yet. . . Coincindentally, neither have you.

If I did, they would come and get me.

Quote:

Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
If I did, they would come and get me.

And take you away, ha ha, ho ho, hee hee, to the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time, and you'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean, white coats, and they're coming to take you away, ha ha!

(Apologies to Napoleon XIV and Dr. Demento)

Aw, go on, just put your spot on the map.

I won't tell them, I promise.

Quote:

Originally posted by M&M Guy

Quote:

Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
If I did, they would come and get me.

And take you away, ha ha, ho ho, hee hee, to the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time, and you'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean, white coats, and they're coming to take you away, ha ha!

(Apologies to Napoleon XIV and Dr. Demento)

Aw, go on, just put your spot on the map.

I won't tell them, I promise.

No way, that's what they all say.

If I didn't call it, it might have happened. If I called it, it happened. I have more patience with folks who don't like what I didn't call... as opposed to what I did call.

Re: Re: Re: Thanks.

Quote:

Originally posted by rainmaker

Quote:

Originally posted by M&M Guy
I used to do this trick with people to illustrate a point - I would get right up in front of them and put my fingertip ever so close to their nose. As I kept my finger there, about a millimeter from their nose, I would ask them if I'm touching them. Of course they would say no. Then I would say, "Yes I am", and point at my feet, which were up against their feet. The point being people sometimes concentrate so much on one thing, they're not aware of anything else. I think that's why many defenders look so amazed when a foul is called on them while they're trying to block a shot - they are concentrating so much on that ball, they're simply not aware their body collided with the shooter as well.

I like this!! I don't know if I"ll use it in a game (lol!), but it's a good thing to think about.

However, it doesn't address whether the shooter feels the defender hit him. Usually, the shooter will have the opposite and feel contact when it doesn't exist, or when it's very slight.

If a shooter really, truly didn't feel anything, I'd probably be ruling it incidental contact.

I'd say that if a shooter is extremely focussed on the shot rather than drawing a foul, he may not necessarily notice that his shot has been made more difficult by the contact.