Call or no call?

[rainmaker]

Well, I almost never agree with stripes about basketball, but he gave me some very good advice to use on my trip, so I suppose he can't be all wrong.

Still, I disagree with him here. I think this play is very easy if you're reffing the defense. It doesn't matter what the percentage of contact is, it doesnt' matter whether the shot goes in, it doesn't matter about advantage or disadvantage. Did the defender go straight up, or slightly backwards? If so, he's legal, no matter how much of the other stuff there may be. If he moved out of legal position, such as toward the shooter, or sideways into the path of the shooter, then it's a foul, even if the contact is only 10% body. I learned this lesson fairly early, and although I've still got a lot of things to work on, REFFING THE DEFENSE is not one of them. It makes a lot of calls so, so easy.