Great experience

[Dan_ref]

Originally posted by DrakeM
Dan,
I don't know if this play was a restricted area play. Chuck????
And I'm not saying Chuck was wrong in his call. Just trying to state some philosophy.
Even at that, If I was Trail, I would take it to the hole, probably step down to try and get the best "open look" at possible. (We're taught that once the ball goes below the free-throw line extended, Trail needs to get to 28' mark. Or wherever the best angle to see the play is)
If however the Lead sees this is a restricted area play, If would hope that he/she would step up and make that known,
so the right call can be made.
I personally think the "it's coming at me"philosophy is on it's way out. The person that the play is "coming to" doesn't always have the best look.

I understand that you were talking philosophy, it just
seemed to me that what you were saying didn't apply in
this case. And what you're saying is not all that foreign
to the "non-Pro" folks, we understand what it means to
follow the play out of our primary into someone elses
area. Anyway, here's Chuck's original post, looks
to me like B2 was coming out of the restricted area...


We also had a blarge call. Ugh. And of course, I was involved in it. I was Lead. The ball started on my side of the floor, right in front of the Trail. A1 drives from the top of the 3-point line and has his torso past B1. B2 comes to help. B2 realizes that he's in the restricted area and steps forward (toward A1) to get out of the area. Bang! I call block, b/c I thought that B2 was still moving forward when the contact occured. Trail comes in hard with the offensive foul. He wanted it, he was sure, so we went with the offensive and got it back in play. Unfortunately, I don't have tape of the play, so I can't review it. But I'm not sure we got it right.