Help with a call that keeps bothering me?

[Hawks Coach]

IMO, the advice to take the charge is not taking into account what you say has happened. You cannot force the pass and get back to the block in time to take the charge. It will be a block every time. And you can't wait in the block because you need to force the first player to pick up the ball - STOP BALL first, right? So what do you do?

If I am coaching you and you are getting 50% of the calls, AND you aren't doing other acts to get into serious foul trouble, I want you to continue what you are doing. You sound like an athletic player who is trying to make a play in a sure scoring situation for the offense. If you get ball all the time, get half the calls, the worst we have is a player who had a lay-up but is now taking FTs. They won't make all of these FTs in all likelihood, and more than 50% of the time you get credit for a block. So we took an automatic and reduced it to a 1/4 or 1/3 scoring opportunity - I like those odds.

However. . . If the rest of your game leads you into foul trouble on a regular basis (and you start or play serious minutes that I need you for), you probably can't afford a 50-50 call like this. Your potential foul far outwieghs your potential blocked shot. So it really depends on the rest of your game what you do in this situation. If you tend to get benched for fouls, then you may want to fake the block attempt, hope to force a missed lay-up, and go for the rebound.