Block/Charge:John Adams Theroy

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Thanks so much for sharing your do-whatever-you-want philosophy on officiating with us. It was so insightful. Of course, it conveniently has the advantage that anything which you chose to do can never be criticized as incorrect.

The game is on the court, not in the book. The book is a summary of the game, attempting to describe the game and the way it is to be played but only so much can be put on paper without it becoming the Library of Congress. There will always be subleties, concepts and philosophies of the game that never get in the book. You can choose to call the game or call the book, your choice, but to call a good game, you need to know the game itself...in addition to the book.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by MOofficial

Just listened to John Adams speak about his theroy on the block charge under the basket. I have never heard it put this way but after he said this it made so much sense.

For those of you who dont know, John is the newly appointed NCAA National Coordiator of Officials, bascially he runs the Tournament in March.

Here is what John said:

The offensive players goal is to try and score the basketball and the job of the defense is to prevent the offense from scoring, then how can the defense be preventing the offense from scoring when standing under the basket trying to take a charge when the ball is out of the offesive players hand for a layup.

Basically what thats saying is that instead of having an arc drawn on the floor, that play is a block everytime. No matter how long they were standing there. After hearing that I fully agree with that philosophy

MOfficial:

Based upon the fact that you made the above post at 08:03pmEDT. Can I assume that you heard John talk about his block/charge philosophy at the NASO Officiating Summit in Cleveland, Ohio.

MTD, Sr.