Game tonight has me pondering when to go get contact...

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Originally Posted by jdw3018 View Post
This is my basic philosophy, and it almost always serves me well. But it ended up in contradiction to the pretty clear philosophy around here to make sure we have a call in a crash when two players go to the floor.

No good solution here - a call needed to be made in most of these situations. The call needed to come from somewhere else.

Originally Posted by just another ref

I think your local philosophy is at least slightly overdone.

My impression is that in the OP you felt the need to carry your partner(s).
All I can say is be careful. Huge potential here to overstep your bounds, or be accused of doing so.

It may be overdone in some spots (two players running for a loose ball run into each other and fall) but for a drive to the basket and a crash between the ball carrier and the defender it's spot on. In that spot a huge crash needs to be called one way or another.

OP, it's not in your area you can't guess. What you can do next timeout and what I'm doing is going to my partners and saying "next time we have a crash like that, we NEED to get something." Hopefully we don't have a second or third or fourth.