Ah Mark, I think you are responding to Tony, not me. I did not make any posts in this thread until this very post. ;)

Peace

tomegun:

I agree with you regarding consistiencey. The real problem concerning the guarding/screening problem is that officials are calling way too many blocks instead of charges. I am will to bet dollars to donuts that if an official had 100 bang-bang block/charge calls and called a charge 100% of the time I would say that the official would be correct at least 95% of the time which is a higher percentage of being correct that anything that the players or coachs do during the game.

MTD, Sr.

I'm not Rut. Never have been, never will. I'd slit my wrists first.

Now, that we have that out of the way, you must not understand why the NBA/WNBA has that rule or you wouldn't have agreed with the idiot sportswriter that it was referee incompetence.

Do you promise?

Peace

Mark, donuts are really not so good for you.

You should bet dollars to a stir fried 6 oz chicken breast with brocolli, bean sprouts and mushrooms with a nice green salad on the side. Try it with the balsamic/olive oil dressing.

Rut and Tony:

This is what happens because I am blind in one eye and can't see out of the other (the number one requirement to be a sports official) and try to multi-task at the same time. There is a reason that my wife gave me bubblegum before we went to bed when we were first married and weren't ready to have children.

MTD, Sr.

Dan:

You sound just like my wife only she is better looking (especially in fish net stockings) and has a sexier voice.

MTD, Sr.

I agree, your wife looks pretty good in fishnets!

:eek:

I think that the NBA/WNBA officials are competent, I think that H.S. officials are the one's that do the poor job of calling block/charge.

MTD, Sr.

The problem with this angle is that if aguard did make such a great play there wouldn't even be a held ball. He would have gained sole possession of the ball. Likewise for the center, if it was a great play by him, he wouldn't have allowed the guard to tie it up. A held ball is a mediocre play for both teams...split the difference, go with the arrow. (NCAA tried going back the the team in control but that opened up a real pandora's box of weird situations and they quickly reverted to the arrow).

Mark, is this a typo, or am I misunderstanding your point? You say that we call way too many blocks, but then you go on to say that 95% of all block/charge situations are actually blocks.

Kind of hard to figure that officials call "way too many" blocks if a block is the correct call 95% of the time.

Chuck, he's been posting under the influence since he started replying to this thread. :)

Chuck:

Tony is correct. I am typing under the influence :D . I will go back and edit my post. I meant that if a charge was called that the official would be correct 95% of the time. I even highlighted charge in red.

MTD, Sr.

Not as good as me! :rolleyes: