How to handle?

[truerookie]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Ray,

There's no consensus on this type of play. There are two basic schools of thought. Some people believe that if the play starts in the Trail's primary and the contact occurs in the Lead's primary that the Trail has primary responsibility for the foul call. This is the newer way of thinking, and is gaining more acceptance. Other people think that if the contact occurs in my primary (wherever that is), then I have primary responsibility for the foul call, regardless of where the play started. This is the more traditional way of thinking; and I think that most people still feel this way generally (although I couldn't prove it).

The bottom line is that you have to pre-game it and ask your partners how your going to handle that play for that game, just to be sure.

(By the way, even for the first group, sometimes the Lead will have primary responsibility for a call on a drive that starts in the Trail's primary. That will be when the contact is with a secondary defender. But that just complicates things.)

Scrapper, I agree wholeheartly. It should be pre-gamed.

[26 Year Gap]

That was one of the situations that came up during our mid-season meeting today. It was stressed to pre-game it. Our interpreter says that it should be C's primary and L's secondary, especially once the offensive player gets to the FT line.