Partners Area

[Rich]

Originally Posted by GoodwillRef

If you partner never accepted the play you should have never given the ball handler up to him...if there was a travel and you know why your parnter didn't get it...you need to go get that travel "if you saw it."

Well, that's the key thing, isn't it -- if he really saw it.

It's hard for a center to "accept the play" with body language, isn't it? In a perfect world, the L would rotate over and the C would start backing out when convenient -- both acknowledging that the ball had changed sides and a rotation was taking place which, without a closely-guarded count means the new T is going to pick up the ball.

In the end, if I saw a bump from behind, I'd come in and get it -- I'm not going to leave my partner hanging. I'm just wondering if I'd get a good look at this. If I was the C, I think I'd probably stretch a bit on contact from behind because I'd have the better look through to get that, but again -- it's a hard thing to picture just from an IBB.

Moral of the story - don't turn your head to talk to a coach when the ball is in the front court.