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Did I make the right call on THIS situation?
YMCA girls' middle school game.
A1 gets trapped in her frontcourt in the right corner by two B players. She heaves a pass over the basket [within a foot of the rim] but it doesn't touch the rim, but goes to her teammate, A2, who is in the far left corner of their frontcourt. As A1 throws the ball, B1 hits her forearm. I call a foul on B1, but on the pass and not on a shot. The coach of the other team goes crazy, and so does some of his parents. They are screaming that it was a shot. I was pretty close to the situation where the player was trapped and I saw the look in her eyes; she wasn't looking at the basket, but was looking at her teammate cross court. Did I make the right call, giving it to the A team for an oob throwin? Or because the ball went right over the rim, should I have considered it a try, even though in my opinion it was more of a pass attempt. Your opinion on this, please. |
If you think it was a pass, you made the correct call.
Explian it to the coach and move on. If the coach won't let it go, deal with that. Ignore the fans. |
It's a judgment call, it's what you get paid to do. Sounds like a pass to me.
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You did great. :) |
If it's a pass, it's a pass.
One thing I might add, in your description you said that the pass made it to A2, so was A1...who was in a bad situation, a trap...really put at a disadvantage by the contact by B1? Sounds like you could have called nothing on this play.;) |
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So you're going to wait to see if the pass makes it all the way across the court to A2 before you decide whether to call a foul or not? :confused: |
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Don't tell me you blow it immediately on an outlet pass on a possible break?:confused: It's a foul when an advantage is gained by the illegal contact, and there are plenty of cases where that requires a late whistle. |
If the pass was made more difficult by the slap, it's a foul. Whether the pass lands at its intended target isn't relevant. Also, in a ms girls game, I'm more likely to call the slap on the arm than hs boys.
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I'd rather not take away a potential advantage by team A, for contact that did not cause a disadvantage by team B...a late whistle is not a factor in that decision. |
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When working a level that understands the value of a almost certain score (and can count on such), they'll expect to not have that foul called...they'd rather get the points. Most HS coaches get it, a few don't. Several years ago, I was working a men's league game with a variety of talent...former collge players, former HS players, and some that never played on an organized team. On one play, one of the latter group got slapped fairly hard across the arm as he threw a long pass down the court to a wide open teammate breaking for a sure basket. The guy started complaining about the foul as the teammate was catching the ball and starting to go up for an undefended layup. The that played college quickly pulled him aside and explained that they really didn't want to wipe the points from the board and get the ball OOB in the backcourt. Never heard another word from that player. |
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Peace |
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