Fouls underneat the goal

ace · #1 (**permalink**) Sun Feb 17, 2002, 01:03am

Today I had 4 players from each team underneath and I knew they fouled but they had so many going on I didnt know who to call it on and what foul to call. What to do in this situation?

Mark Padgett · #2 (**permalink**) Sun Feb 17, 2002, 01:28am

Simple. Call the first foul you see on the correct player. Ignore the rest of the contact unless intentional or flagrant because you have a dead ball situation.

If you can't do that, get more training.

This may sound cold and harsh, and I don't mean it to, but that's what you're going to have to learn to do. You can't ignore fouls just because there are a lot of players and they're fouling a lot at about the same time, and use that as an excuse. Kids will get hurt that way.

RX Ref · #3 (**permalink**) Sun Feb 17, 2002, 08:15am

Do you really know that they were fouls or do you think there had to be because there was some much going on? Yesterday in a game was doing the coach kept yelling " you gotta call something" every time we had multiple put backs under the basket. During a dead ball I told him I was not going to make something up just beacause we have a flurry under the basket, and I don't "HAVE to call something if there is nothing".

daves · #4 (**permalink**) Sun Feb 17, 2002, 04:36pm

Speaking of fouls underneath the goal. I had a varsity boys game a few nights ago. I called a PC foul on a player when the defender was under the basket. The coach for the player that committed the foul about went nuts. He told me that you couldn't call a player control when the defender was underneath the basket. I didn't have a Davism for him so I reported the foul and moved on.

Mark Dexter · #5 (**permalink**) Sun Feb 17, 2002, 05:14pm

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Originally posted by daves
Speaking of fouls underneath the goal. I had a varsity boys game a few nights ago. I called a PC foul on a player when the defender was under the basket. The coach for the player that committed the foul about went nuts. He told me that you couldn't call a player control when the defender was underneath the basket. I didn't have a Davism for him so I reported the foul and moved on.

You could tell him that you'll be reffing NBA games before he's coaching them, so he should leave the rules differences up to you!