NBA blarge

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

They don't mind having offensive fouls, but they don't want people taking a position with the sole purpose of drawing the offensive foul.

Yup, that would be called "playing help defense". And "help defense" is frowned on in the NBA because it would cut down scoring. And besides cutting down scoring, you wouldn't see all of those awesome dunks from players who otherwise usually can't dribble, pass or shoot a 15 footer. And you also wouldn't get to see those players who just made that awesome dunk pound his chest, point at the defender he dunked on, dance, and perform all of those other little post-dunk acts that we've grown to know and love....all while the other team is going 5 on 4 the other way.

The NBA......fantaaaaastic......

[ace]

The NBA rules have made it to the stands of high school gyms all around us. I was working my last game of the season two weeks ago, when we had a charge about where the semi-cirlce would be on a NBA court.

Same fan, in the same seat, every year I've been there, yells out "How is that a charge, he was too far under the basket?!"

We have a load of subs coming in and he asks
"Isn't therea rule about that?"
"only in the NBA" i say.
he replies "kind of like traveling isn't in there rule book but its in the HS one?"
"yeah, kind of like that." I smile and we go on.