Waste of time, M. He doesn't understand the concept and never will.

<i>"Let's consistently make bad calls so that we're consistent."</i>

The good thing is that I honestly can't believe that any official reading his nonsense will actually do anything else but laugh.

...sigh...I know. But I currently have a teenage daughter who is learning how to drive, so I'm already used banging my head against a wall for no apparent reason.

Thanks mick! Now I really feel stupid (but relieved - I thought maybe it stood for something REALLY BAD!) :eek:

And that coach will say, I know... you kicked that one too, but I didnt say anything cuz it went in my favor.

Yeah well at least you don't have a teenage son driving who'll feel obligated to keep you from banging your head against the wall by banging the damn car into a utility pole.

Do you have any idea how much money it costs to replace 1 stinking utility pole??!!

Now we're even.

This is admitting to making "make-up calls." Good officials don't do "make-up calls."

IMO the sentence in red is not a foul unless the contact is so violent that you can't pass on it. What you can't pass on is at your discretion.

The phrase in blue I totally disagree with. To be clear I'm picturing very athletic college level players when I think of this play:

A1 on a break away with B1 running him down. A1 gets to the rim to lay it in and B1, who catches A1, goes to block the ball and does in fact get the ball before body contact, but then subsequently knocks A1 to the floor. Not violently, but knocks him to the floor. Foul or no foul?

I have been taught that this is a "play on". If you block the shot and then make body contact, I have no problem with it most of the time because you don't illegally contact the player while trying to make a play. Now if you make body contact and then block the shot, I have a problem there, cause the player may have had to come through the offensive players space to block the shot.

To give an example: I had a play this year where the defender got stuck behind the offensive player (they were about 6 ft. from the basket, weird for the defender to be behind, I know). The offensive player knew where the defender was so he upfaked and the defender bit and jumped. While the defender was on his way down the offensive player started to go up. On the way up the defender made slight contact with the shooter on his way down, but then after the contact, he blocked the ball so clean. I blew the whistle. In my judgement the player created contact and in creating that contact he was able to block the shot. Had he blocked it first then contact I would have left it alone.


My point being let the defender make great defensive plays if he doesn't make contact before he blocks the shot.

Let me get this straight. When I applied judgement to this call, my call is a bad call and you tell everybody not to do it my way because it's wrong, than you turn around and say it's a straight judgement call. Let's go one step further. My call is the worse call ever made on this forum.

Judgment calls can go either way, so you jumping off the deep end that this is asinine is asinine. After further review, I wish I didn't call this one. I'm being honest. I'm thinking I'm the only one on this forum that's being honest. If you want to pretend that these type of things don't really happen, then you are living in a make believe world, and you need to quite drinking that damn kool-aid because it is taunted. It's not consistenecy versus inconsistency. It's about being fair. Now, this is what I stated.

The further up the ladder you go, I think the more important it is to be consistent with your calls because everything is being psycho-analyzed these days. If I can point out that a certain official called it here but didn't call the exact same thing there. That wreaks of cheating. In order to be fair, you have to call it both ways. We're not talking a straight bad call like JR would have you believe here. We are talking judgment calls. Make sure your judgment is consistent thru-out the game and I think you will be better off.

If I let it go down here, then I'm going to let it go down there. If I call it down here, then I'm going to call it down there. This is the essense of good officiating. It is defendable. You calling it one way down here and the other way down there is not defendable, imo.

Why do you guys keep engaging this fool? Let it go. He is not going to say anything productive. He does not know what he is doing. Just ignore him and move on.

Peace

He even responded I did not use a name. That should tell you guys everything.

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Peace

Well, we tried this and it didn't work...
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:D

I liked her, JR. Still do.
But she had to leave cuz her perfessor husband bit a cop in Miami and I think Duke got a twofer, just like Michigan State did.
I think the coach makes more than the perfessor.:)

I think the Detroit News story said that she would be getting a base of $550,000 or so, same as the Duke coach that she replaced had made. I would imagine that's more than the perfesssor, Mick. :)

[QUOTE=btaylor64]
The offensive player knew where the defender was so he upfaked and the defender bit and jumped. While the defender was on his way down the offensive player started to go up. On the way up the defender made slight contact with the shooter on his way down, but then after the contact, he blocked the ball so clean. I blew the whistle. In my judgement the player created contact and in creating that contact he was able to block the shot. Had he blocked it first then contact I would have left it alone.

Question: Why contact was not severe enough to warrant an initial whistle? You stated yourself that is was slight contact. I know, I know patience whislte waiting to see the entire play develop.