Call it or not??

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

This tells me who is responsible for the contact. It's not a foul without some sort of advantage. Now, let me add this, if the slap is hard enough to be considered "rough tactics," I'll call it. With a slap, though, it can be relatively light and still come out pretty loud.

With your play, I've got an advantage gained. If A1 gets shoved out of bounds, then he starts off the ensuing play at a disadvantage. As far as I'm concerned, displacement is almost always an advantage.

This isn't an a/d issue, it's a game control issue. Trying to reach in and smack the ball loose in this situation is just poor defense. It also starts people's tempers flaring. If it happens more than once or twice, and the coaches aren't hollering at their kids to knock it off, I think you need to call it just to clean it up. It's really no different than getting an early handcheck or post foul; you're just showing them where the boundaries are. You'll rarely have to call this twice in a game.