3 seconds....THREE SECONDS!!!

[Adam]

Originally Posted by muxbule

I'm pretty sure you know what I am talking about and that is not what I am suggesting. back at you.

JR was using some hyperbole to make a point. Every time we blow our whistles, it stops the game. Some refer to certain calls as "game interrupters" and others call them "game stoppers," and JR's point is "WTF makes one violation a game interrupter and another acceptable?"

It seems pretty arbitrary, to be honest; especially when I hear it applied to travels and palming and 3 seconds. You never see it applied to OOB calls, or 5 second counts. Why not? The game is stopped for just as long and for the same reason; to give the ball to the erstwhile defenders.

His main point, however, that you didn't address, is that the term originally applied to incidental contact that gets called a foul by the officials. Contact that may look illegal but in actuality creates no advantage, so it should be ignored. That's a game interrupter, IMO.