The Beauty of Summer Sight-Seeing

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

I'd even not call a foul when the ballhandler is right beside the defender and making contact with both hands but the defender is clearly beat and is unaffected by the contact.

Unfortunately when you do so, you are going completely against the very explicit instructions and guidance given to us by both the FED and NCAA rulesmakers. They both tell us that this is NEVER a judgment call. Two hands placed on a ballhandler by a defender is an automatic foul. That includes all instances when a ballhandler is right beside a defender imo.

If a ballhandler is beside a defender, I personally would never consider that defender as being beat either. I'd give the defender the chance to recover. What I won't do is allow a defender to put both hands on a ballhandler from the side.

As I said, it doesn't matter whether any of us like or agree with this particular rule. We don't have any choice but to follow it because we are being told that we have to.