Charge, After Charge, After Charge

[Rich]

Originally Posted by letemplay

I believe I see too many fouls on the offense, when defense gets there too late (imo), toe taps in front of an offensive player and takes it in the chest. I believe it hurts the game of basketball. I'm aware many will disagree, but the offensive player should have a reasonable chance to change direction, and I don't see that happening on some of these calls. You can debate just exactly what is "reasonable".

Define "too late." By rule, that means "unable to establish or maintain legal guarding position." I have no clue what you mean "toe taps."

The offensive player should be allowed to change direction -- are you saying that the defensive player shouldn't be allowed to do so as well in order to play defense?

I'm with the rest of the officials here -- I call a lot of player control fouls.