'No-charge zone' approved in basketball

[amusedofficial]

I'm not very bright. Do I understand this correctly?

1. The NCAA basketball brass thinks play under the basket is too rough.

2. The way to make play under the basket less rough is to eliminate a type of foul from the rule book, namely offensive fouls committed against a secondary defender under the basket.

3. To compensate for eliminating offensive fouls committed against a secondary defender under the basket, we will now whistle a foul against a player for gaining legal guarding position in a small defined area of the lane if a player in control of the basketball decides to barrel into him in this small area of the court.

4. In the interests of reducing contact under the basket, offensive players are now justified in banging into a defender as long as that defender is in a "help" situation.

5. After about mid-January, Daddy will start demanding that this call or is be made in junior high school games.

Do I have this right?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by amusedofficial

After about mid-January, Daddy will start demanding that this call be made in junior high school games.

amusedofficial: You are both bright, and right. The quoted part of your post (above) is what scares me the most, since I only officiate under NFHS rules. This may be a job that not even the Mythbusters can handle.

[David B]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

amusedofficial: You are both bright, and right. The quoted part of your post (above) is what scares me the most, since I only officiate under NFHS rules. This may be a job that not even the Mythbusters can handle.

And that will be a disaster trying to get HS school officials to call this consistently.

Its' hard enough in the NBA with full time employees who can watch every game back in slow mo replay to see if they missed it etc., And they have a very long season of 82 plus games to practice making the calls.

Have to admit, though the NBA officials are pretty consistent with this call now.

But it will be very hard on college officials, (especially with no markings on the floor) and not even possible at the HS level IMO.

Thanks
David

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by amusedofficial

5. After about mid-January, Daddy will start demanding that this call or is be made in junior high school games.

Do I have this right?

You do not have item 5 correct. You're about 2 months too late.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

You do not have item 5 correct. You're about 2 months too late.

Actually, Bob, he's about five years too late.