Let me correct a coach's quote

[Rich]

Originally Posted by TimTaylor

Agreed. Had one the other night...guard decides to drive the lane and tries to split two defenders standing a foot or so apart with their arms straight up. Lots of minor contact, all caused by the offensive player. He misses wildly, defense gets the rebound and we head the other way. As I passed the bench the coach yells "How is that not a foul?" - with a completely straight face I told him "because the defenders had LGP and your guard didn't displace either of them".

My dad would've said "you can't squeeze 10 pounds of **** in a 5 pound bag." Of course, he wasn't a referee.

The time I most often see something like this is when the defender legally seals off the sideline and the guard tries to go around the defender and ends up going *** over teakettle on the sideline cause he can't dribble and do cartwheels at the same time. Usually the call is simply out of bounds as the contact is really incidental to the whole thing and I've seen both coaches want fouls in that situation (of course they want different fouls).