Call Decides Harvard-Penn game

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Are you sure you have not been "smoking" that lately?

Surprisingly, medical marijuana not yet legal in Connecticut. Our state legislator is looking at this right now, and our governor says that he will sign the bill if it's put in front of him. And I was wrong in my previous post. The beginning of basketball season is the most wonderful time of the year. Getting ready to put in my vegetable, and flower, garden is the second most wonderful time of the year.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Surprisingly, medical marijuana not yet legal in Connecticut. Our state legislator is looking at this right now, and our governor says that he will sign the bill if it's put in front of him.

If he doesn't sign the bill, you can always move out here to Oregon.

[kape]

Thanks for all the responses.

I thought it was the right call, but I didn't expect 100 percent agreement, and I was hoping for more discussion on why it was a no-brainer instead of only that it was a no-brainer, so I could gain insight into one of the tougher calls (to me) in basketball. That seemed like an O.K. reason to post here.

[APG]

It's a no brainer because the defender obtained an initial legal guarding position by virtue of having two feet on the floor and his torso facing the defender, and gaining that LGP before the player with the ball was airborne. Time and distance did not apply because the player had the ball and no time and distance is afforded for him.

[VaTerp]

The "call" did not decide this game. As is almost always the case, the players decided this game.

Instead of focusing on the official who did his job and made the correct, and relatively easy, call; the focus should be on the defender who rotated over to help and made a hell of a defensive play to help secure a W for his team.

[MD Longhorn]

Sometimes the call makes itself. This one is textbook. This one is one we've seen 1000 times in clinics. Thus the fact that no one felt the need to explain it. If a play was created to be an example in the book, this one could be it.

I'm thinking the headline should have been... 20 missed shots including 2-11 from 3, 6 missed free throws and 20 turnovers decide Harvard Penn game. But then that would have been a lot of video to post.

[DesMoines]

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

sometimes the call makes itself. This one is textbook. This one is one we've seen 1000 times in clinics. Thus the fact that no one felt the need to explain it. If a play was created to be an example in the book, this one could be it.

I'm thinking the headline should have been... 20 missed shots including 2-11 from 3, 6 missed free throws and 20 turnovers decide harvard penn game. But then that would have been a lot of video to post.

+1

[Adam]

Originally Posted by kape

Thanks for all the responses.

I thought it was the right call, but I didn't expect 100 percent agreement, and I was hoping for more discussion on why it was a no-brainer instead of only that it was a no-brainer, so I could gain insight into one of the tougher calls (to me) in basketball. That seemed like an O.K. reason to post here.

You'll have to forgive us; it's like Pavlov's bells this time of year, and you played all the right notes.

Maybe you could answer a question: why did you think it was close?

[APG]

I guess I should rephrase...what in the blue hell does your gardening activities or medical marijuana have to do with the block charge play in the OP?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

I guess I should rephrase...what in the blue hell does your gardening activities or medical marijuana have to do with the block charge play in the OP?

The call being an ordinary garden variety charge call. I've got gardening on my mind today. It's the second most wonderful time of the year. I can't wait to see the centerfold in my next seed catalog. My last seed catalog had a real hot petunia as the centerfold.

[Brad]

Saw this live and thought it was super-standard. Not even close. Would have been controversial if it hadn't been called!

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Brad

Saw this live and thought it was super-standard. Not even close. Would have been controversial if it hadn't been called!

Like I said, an ordinary garden variety charge call.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Like I said, an ordinary garden variety charge call.

If only you'd stopped there.
he said wishfully