crew's last game play situation

[ChuckElias]

Originally posted by DrakeM
Chuck,
I don't believe Crew and Eli were saying that every time a defender gets ball and then contacts body, it is a no-call.

And they are correct in saying that this type of play is one that supervisors at higher levels want refereed in that manner. They want blocked shots!

I'm going to have to disagree, Drake. If you go back to the thread and read the comments, it's clear that they think that as long as the block was clean up top, you should let slight contact on the body go; even if the slight contact knocks the shooter to the floor. Last night was the perfect example to show that this is not correct. Clean block, slight body contact, shooter falls -- foul! (And this was in a 1 or 2 point ball game with 8.8 seconds to go!!)

I will agree that you officiate the way your supervisor wants you to, in order to move up. But here's a guy who has obviously moved up to the premier leagues. To do that, we all agree that he has to call his game (to a certain extent) the way his supervisor(s) want it called. And he called a foul in the exact situation that crew and Eli told us should be a "no call".

For some reason, crew likes to throw out game situations and then give us twisted rationales for why we should not call them correctly. Last night we saw that the best officials in the country call it correctly.

Chuck