Elbowing
 

Situation BJV last night

A1 getting post position to receive pass into the post - I am lead -
A1 swings a pretty visious elbow but misses the defender behind him - I call elbow violation - what would you have?

The Fed wants these curtailed. The possibilities are either the elbow violation or a technical foul (possibly flagrant if an attempt to injure). If the swinging was deliberate, I would go with the T. If not, violation sounds like a good call.

Non-contact swinging of the elbows, violation...yep. Although I agree with JR that if the intent is to cause injury, a technical is the correct call.

-Josh

Refsmitty:

There two possible infractions of the rules in this play. And we are paid to the big $'s to decide which one occured.

Play 1: A1 is just swining his elbows excessively in an effort to get people away from him so he can get the the rebound.

Play 2: Did A1 swing his elbow in an attempt to hit B1 and missed? Attempting to hit an opponent is a flagrant TF.

From the description of your play, I would go with Play 1.

MTD, Sr.

OK, perhaps a bit far-fetched but what if a defender (say they're in a zone) swings the non-contact elbow? With perhaps some low-level "get out of my area" display but no intent to harm (No T)? It's a slow day here ...

It's a violation for the defender as well.

A1 rebounds a shot by B1. B2 and B3 immediately pressure A1. A1 in trying to keep the ball away from the defenders swings his elbows back and forth. No contact.

Anything?

Maybe, maybe not.

MTD, Sr.

As a new official I've leaned towards the "maybe not" but I'm not sure what I would have to see to call the violation in this scenario.

Contact doesn't matter. If you deem the swinging excessive, call the violation.

Called it in my last game when the kid rebounded and started flailing his elbows within inches of defender's faces.

To me, an easy "Excessive swinging of elbows".
It even has it's own signal in the NFHS Official Basketball Signals chart.

Now if the kid is swinging his elbows and no one is around him or defenders are retreating from him as he begins to do it... no call.

Paul

What if B1 controls a rebound with elbows out like some are taught to do and and pivots moving elbows side-to-side but not excessively and makes contact with the defender with his/her elbow???

OK, blanking out and nobody's bailed me out yet: What's the penalty/action after this? Especially since it could be off ball/away from the play? Just blanking out.

It'a a violation. For all violations, except BI and GT, what is the penalty?

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Wow, such a definitve answer. Is that your final answer, and are you sticking to it?