Down goes player.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

I'd say it's a little more prevalent than once in a career...but usually you see it in a transition when going from old trail to new lead on a fastbreak.

How many times have you personally knocked a player down?

[APG]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

How many times have you personally knocked a player down?

Can't say it's happened to me, but I've had some situations (quick steal) where a player has almost collided into me (were it not for my 4.4 speed ).

I guess I was saying I've seen it happen maybe once or twice an NBA season...so not a once a career thing...maybe 1.5 a career.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

Can't say it's happened to me, but I've had some situations (quick steal) where a player has almost collided into me (were it not for my 4.4 speed ).

I guess I was saying I've seen it happen maybe once or twice an NBA season...so not a once a career thing...maybe 1.5 a career.

Let's just say I'm hoping it's a once-a-career situation.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

How many times have you personally knocked a player down?

I don't think that I ever have, but I have set some "wicked" screens. (How's my Maine accent bainsey?)

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

How many times have you personally knocked a player down?

Snaqs:

I have never (with apologies to J. Dallas Shirley) knocked a player down, but years ago, before Mark was a gleam in my eyes, I got "tackled" by a player diving for a loose ball that was going out of bounds along my sideline. The game was a boys' H.S. freshmen game; I don't know why the player dived for the ball because his team would have gotten the ball because it was going OOB off his opppoenent. The game was on the Friday afternoon of the last week of the OhioHSAA regular season. I officiated a NAIA women's college regular season game the next afternoon when I really shouldn't have because: The following Monday I found out that I had suffered a strained MCL and a cracked tibia in my left leg. I did not return to officiating until the opening week of the H.S. baseball season. The best thing of returning to officiating was that my first baseball game of the season was a boys' H.S. freshmen game (I was behind the Plate) and the Lead Off Batter for the Visitor's was the basketball player that had ended my basketball season. He didn't know the extent of my injury; I told him that it was not a problem, but he had better be swinging every at bat because every pitch he saw was going to be a strike, .

MTD, Sr.