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Small school varsity girls (AAAaaawful basketball!!!!!) I have a situation where I am lead. A1,a big girl, with ball is VERY closely guarded by smallish (well shortish) B1, above the free throw line extended. about 4 feet from my sideline. A1 pivots, with elbows out, and strikes the girl guarding her in the face. In both my partner's and my opinion the player with the ball was not throwing elbows and the elbow was not malicious. My partner later said he did not think it was severe enough to warrant a foul but I have a hard time passing on that so I came out with player control. (Yes, it was his primary)

I reported the foul and started to resume play when the coach goes ballistic and screams "aren't you going to call an official's time out. I said "no" and the coach yells "not even for a broken nose?" B1 had left the court and was laying behind the bench where we could not see her. There was a sheriff, an EMT and another adult all tending to her. My partner went over, assessed the situation and asked the coach for a sub. Coach was furious but put in a sub and we resumed play.

Typically, we do a girls varsity followed by a boys varsity. During half time of the boys game the girls coach stops us as we are leaving the court and tells us that an elbow is an automatic technical and he can show us in the rule book. He told us he was going to write us up. We did not challenge his rule prowess but did tell him he was welcome to write the state office. I don't expect to here any more about it.
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Old Tue Dec 23, 2008, 11:17am
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Based upon your description, you made the proper call.
Contact during a LIVE ball is never a technical foul. The coach is 100% wrong. You have nothing to fear from a report to the state office. File an injury report if you need to. I bet that you are glad that you called a foul on the play even though it was in your partner's area. I wonder what his reaction was when he learned that the player was hit hard enough to break her nose and he didn't believe that a foul was warranted. (Of course, an injury isn't always conclusive proof that something illegal occurred, but it does make for an easy whistle.)

Your choices were: common foul = PC foul, intentional personal foul, flagrant personal foul.

Remember that the guard is not required to give the ball handler any time or distance as long as the guard does not make contact. If the offensive player violates the guard's vertical space and places that player at a disadvantage, a foul on the offensive player should be called.

There are times when contact will occur due to the normal pivoting movement and not be a foul as it will not place any player at a disadvantage. In that case, it should be deemed incidental contact.

Just don't fail to protect the defender who has a right to that space in the same manner as you always hear about protecting the shooter.

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Old Tue Dec 23, 2008, 11:25am
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Based upon your description, you made the proper call.
Contact during a LIVE ball is never a technical foul. The coach is 100% wrong. You have nothing to fear from a report to the state office. File an injury report if you need to. I bet that you are glad that you called a foul on the play even though it was in your partner's area. I wonder what his reaction was when he learned that the player was hit hard enough to break her nose and he didn't believe that a foul was warranted. (Of course, an injury isn't always conclusive proof that something illegal occurred, but it does make for an easy whistle.)

Your choices were: common foul = PC foul, intentional personal foul, flagrant personal foul.

Remember that the guard is not required to give the ball handler any time or distance as long as the guard does not make contact. If the offensive player violates the guard's vertical space and places that player at a disadvantage, a foul on the offensive player should be called.

There are times when contact will occur due to the normal pivoting movement and not be a foul as it will not place any player at a disadvantage. In that case, it should be deemed incidental contact.

Just don't fail to protect the defender who has a right to that space in the same manner as you always hear about protecting the shooter.
Good advice Nevada!
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Old Tue Dec 23, 2008, 11:46am
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He told us he was going to write us up. We did not challenge his rule prowess but did tell him he was welcome to write the state office. I don't expect to here any more about it.
The coach will end up with egg on his face.

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Contact during a LIVE ball is never a technical foul. ... There are times when contact will occur due to the normal pivoting movement and not be a foul as it will not place any player at a disadvantage. In that case, it should be deemed incidental contact.
Well said.
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Old Tue Dec 23, 2008, 02:38pm
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Based upon your description, you made the proper call.
Contact during a LIVE ball is never a technical foul. The coach is 100% wrong. You have nothing to fear from a report to the state office. File an injury report if you need to. I bet that you are glad that you called a foul on the play even though it was in your partner's area. I wonder what his reaction was when he learned that the player was hit hard enough to break her nose and he didn't believe that a foul was warranted. (Of course, an injury isn't always conclusive proof that something illegal occurred, but it does make for an easy whistle.)

Your choices were: common foul = PC foul, intentional personal foul, flagrant personal foul.

Remember that the guard is not required to give the ball handler any time or distance as long as the guard does not make contact. If the offensive player violates the guard's vertical space and places that player at a disadvantage, a foul on the offensive player should be called.

There are times when contact will occur due to the normal pivoting movement and not be a foul as it will not place any player at a disadvantage. In that case, it should be deemed incidental contact.

Just don't fail to protect the defender who has a right to that space in the same manner as you always hear about protecting the shooter.
Nevada, as usual, is right and very thoroughly covers the situation. To expand a little further in part I find that contact with the head or face is a no call more often than one might think. In the first place, it is hard to see. Why? Because the official's focus is on the ball, the hands, the feet, basically anywhere but the face. In the second place, often the contact is a result of the defender literally sticking his nose where it doesn't belong, resulting in either a small amount of incidental contact or a blocking foul.
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Old Tue Dec 23, 2008, 03:02pm
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In the second place, often the contact is a result of the defender literally sticking his nose where it doesn't belong, resulting in either a small amount of incidental contact or a blocking foul.
Could you please expound upon that part?
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Old Tue Dec 23, 2008, 03:06pm
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Could you please expound upon that part?
I disagree with it. Usually, it seems this contact is because the rebounder is sticking his elbows where he has no right to have them.
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I disagree with it. Usually, it seems this contact is because the rebounder is sticking his elbows where he has no right to have them.
I may have overstated the point. When it's a rebounder, I agree with you. Let's try it this way. If a player is standing vertically as he should, he'll be okay, of course. But when a player assumes an improper posture, defensively speaking he sometimes leads with his chin, and may easily create the contact with it.
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Could you please expound upon that part?
A1 pushes the ball in transition, dribbling with his right hand. B1 pursues on his left. A1 does a quick start-stop move. B1 is fooled, and lunges across A1's body in an ill-conceived attempt at a steal. (that's right, he reached in)
There is considerable contact, an easy blocking call on B1, who emerges rubbing his nose and frowning. B1's mother stands up. "What? He got hit in the nose!"
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A1 pushes the ball in transition, dribbling with his right hand. B1 pursues on his left. A1 does a quick start-stop move. B1 is fooled, and lunges across A1's body in an ill-conceived attempt at a steal. (that's right, he reached in)
There is considerable contact, an easy blocking call on B1, who emerges rubbing his nose and frowning. B1's mother stands up. "What? He got hit in the nose!"
I'll give you that one, but that's not the more common situation.

Usually what I see is B1 playing close defense, A1 puts his elbows up and pivots, knocking B1 in the nose with his elbow. PC.
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Small school varsity girls (AAAaaawful basketball!!!!!) I have a situation where I am lead. A1,a big girl, with ball is VERY closely guarded by smallish (well shortish) B1, above the free throw line extended. about 4 feet from my sideline. A1 pivots, with elbows out, and strikes the girl guarding her in the face. In both my partner's and my opinion the player with the ball was not throwing elbows and the elbow was not malicious. My partner later said he did not think it was severe enough to warrant a foul but I have a hard time passing on that so I came out with player control. (Yes, it was his primary)

I reported the foul and started to resume play when the coach goes ballistic and screams "aren't you going to call an official's time out. I said "no" and the coach yells "not even for a broken nose?" B1 had left the court and was laying behind the bench where we could not see her. There was a sheriff, an EMT and another adult all tending to her. My partner went over, assessed the situation and asked the coach for a sub. Coach was furious but put in a sub and we resumed play.

Typically, we do a girls varsity followed by a boys varsity. During half time of the boys game the girls coach stops us as we are leaving the court and tells us that an elbow is an automatic technical and he can show us in the rule book. He told us he was going to write us up. We did not challenge his rule prowess but did tell him he was welcome to write the state office. I don't expect to here any more about it.
Could not have been Technical during a live ball. Three choices: Intentional Personal, Flagrant Personal or Player control. I am not going to doubt you, HTBT, Player control is what you called.
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Me: "Find it and show me, coach."
It's obvious he can't for two reasons.

1. It's not there, and we all know it.
2. He'd had plenty of time to find it and didn't have it ready for you.
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During half time of the boys game the girls coach stops us as we are leaving the court and tells us that an elbow is an automatic technical and he can show us in the rule book. He told us he was going to write us up. We did not challenge his rule prowess but did tell him he was welcome to write the state office. I don't expect to here any more about it.
"Coach, we're not having this conversation, but before you write us up I'd suggest you read that rule book closely..."
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Why would there be a need to call an officials timeout, if the player got off the court while you were reporting the foul to the table. Clearly the coach knew that the player had to come out, so wouldn't he send a sub to the table automaticly? Maybe I am mis understanding the situation.
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Why would there be a need to call an officials timeout, if the player got off the court while you were reporting the foul to the table. Clearly the coach knew that the player had to come out, so wouldn't he send a sub to the table automaticly? Maybe I am mis understanding the situation.
No, you seem to be understanding it perfectly. The coach, however....
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