Basketball's toughest calls - anyone read it?

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by stir22

It's not that I disagree, but was wondering if you would expound on your thoughts about travelling. Thanks!

If you think about the violations that can be called, traveling stands alone in the complexity of the criteria used to call it.

The occurrence of the following are all easy to determine....

• OOB
• Any count
• thrower stepped inbounds
• FT didn't hit the rim
• player in the lane before the ball hit
• double (illegal) dribble
• kick
• backcourt
• GT/BI

These are easy to determine due to their black/white nature or their rather uncomplicated combination of factors to consider when it may occur. Of course, the backcourt rule is complicated but it is easy to call once you understand the rule.

Traveling, on the other hand, requires several elements to all align to call correctly....holding the ball relative to the release on a dribble/pass or the catch from dribble/pass relative to the foot movement (some of which is legal and some isn't).

[tref]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

If think about the violations that can be called, traveling stands alone in the complexity of the criteria used to call it.

True, but we can make it easy on ourselves by stopping the guessing. For me, if I dont have a clean look at the feet + ball status, then it didnt happen. I'd rather miss one that happened than call one that didn't.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by tref

True, but we can make it easy on ourselves by stopping the guessing. For me, if I dont have a clean look at the feet + ball status, then it didnt happen. I'd rather miss one that happened than call one that didn't.

That just proves the point. Just because you can't seen it clearly enough to see whether it happened or not doesn't mean that it didn't happen. It just means you didn't see it.

For all of the others, they're usually very easy to see and to judge.

[wyo96]

Three of us hear bought it last year and really liked it.

Officials at all three levels and M & W give their perspective on those three calls.

It was easy to read in short sessions and provoked good thought and some discussion when we got together.

I would recommend it to veterans and rookies.

[Adam]

Toughest call us to my wife after an early game that went OT.

[BktBallRef]

My toughest call is calling me wife and telling her I'm stopping off at Hooters!

[stir22]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

If you think about the violations that can be called, traveling stands alone in the complexity of the criteria used to call it.

The occurrence of the following are all easy to determine....

• OOB
• Any count
• thrower stepped inbounds
• FT didn't hit the rim
• player in the lane before the ball hit
• double (illegal) dribble
• kick
• backcourt
• GT/BI

These are easy to determine due to their black/white nature or their rather uncomplicated combination of factors to consider when it may occur. Of course, the backcourt rule is complicated but it is easy to call once you understand the rule.

Traveling, on the other hand, requires several elements to all align to call correctly....holding the ball relative to the release on a dribble/pass or the catch from dribble/pass relative to the foot movement (some of which is legal and some isn't).

Many thanks!!!