Thoughts on this dunk...etc.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by SmokeEater

I agree it's a no call, but I hate the excuse that he "bailed out to avoid significant contact". Not that your wrong that he did back up a bit but he is allowed to do so to protect himself from possible injury. Obviously we don't need to have "significant" contact for a foul to occur. The defender was in position and the offense clearly hit him. I would have been Ok seeing PC or No call on this.

I want to be sure that I am not singling you out JRut even though I used your comment, it just reminded me of a conversation I had this season with some other officials.

I am a big guy, I can handle myself just fine.

I am not saying that he cannot avoid significant contact, but it does not look like significant contact took place and was mostly incidental than a foul. It looks to me like he fell because he was off balance and trying not to getting actually run the heck over. If he took all the contact in the chest then I have a different story. It looks to me like most of the contact was with his arms and the dunker's legs trying to shield him and because he was off balance the little contact makes him fall.

Not all contact is a foul and this does not look like enough for me to call a foul in this situation.

Peace