How can you disagree with calling the game of basketball as the rules and the overriding philosophy expects?

It's a lot easier to just blow a whistle every time there's contact, but that's not how we earn our big bucks.

You don't agree with advantage/disadvantage????

Sorry but based on what you've posted in this thread, yes, I do know that you don't understand advantage/disadvantage, as any veteran official would who reads your posts in this thread.

A better understanding of incidental contact and advantage/disadvantage will help you better understand these types of plays.

Careful about letting this carry any weight. Last year, BV end of the first half. A1 released a long 3, after which there was an audible smack as the defender contacted his arm. Home coach naturally wanted to know how that could not be a foul.

"Coach, the ball was 5 feet out of his hand. The contact had no effect on anything."

"So I can tell my guys that after every shot they should slap the shooter on the arm as hard as they can?"

"Well, you could try that and see how it works out for you.":)

Beginning thoughts of adv/disadv
 

With all the mentoring I do, with a newer official that is trying to grasp the concept we're discussing, I sometimews start with:
contact on the shooter's arm, then the ball: foul;
contact on the ball and the arm, judgement;
contact on the ball, and then the arm, rarely a foul.
As stated by several of the previous comments, the intensity of the contact, and its result - displacement, knocking the shooter off balance, etc., will be the determining factors.
My main objective with such a discussion is to get newer officials to understand adv/disadv. Obviously, more seasoned/skilled players will play thru more contact than lesser skilled players.

I understand incidental contact, and how some types of contact are used to gain an advantage, or put their opponent at a disadvantage. However, I know that developing judgement about what contact is incidental and what is illegal take time. As such, I am leaning a lot on what I hear from other officials and this forum! Officials I work with call fouls on this very type of contact I posted on, which demonstrates to me that it is not incidental.

However, you gentlemen have explained exactly what makes this contact incidental, which overturns my previous thought about any contact on a jump-shooter being a foul.

So, while I may understand the principles of the advantage/disadvantage philosophy, I am not able to implement it yet. That is what I mean, and that is what I think you were trying to point out. I understand the why of officiating principles, I don't fully understand the how just yet.

Well if you do not understand, you better learn soon. That is the entire premise on what we call fouls with. Maybe the rulebook does not use the term "Advantage/disadvantage" but it sure as heck is used in different terms talking about "Normal offensive and defensive movement" being affected by contact. And if that normal movement is not affected, it is not a foul, even if contact is severe (4-27). And that is why you are not seeing calls made just because there is contact and especially on these shots where only touching is taking place.

Peace

That's why I am here! But it does not help when guys here are busting my butt for not knowing certain things. I'm here to learn guys, you don't have to remind me how much I don't know. Just help me.

PS: Quote me right, I said "fully understand".

Well there is only so much we can teach you here. People in your area have to teach you things like this on some level as many of us here will disagree or say contradictory things. The best way to learn is to follow guys you work around and see what is acceptable or not and ask them why they call things. I watch high school and college games and see things I think should be called. I even watch my games and see things I wish I had called or passed on based on a lot of factors. And if you listen to some, you either "get it" from a judgment standpoint or you don't. I personally think you can always develop judgment but you have to get the concepts first then apply them properly. And the rulebook gives the concept, actually seeing it in games is what you have to decide to do and what to do consistently. That is why even when we show video here, many disagreements about what we would call and why. I would suggest you follow people in your area that are a level or two above you and use that as the best guidance. This place should only be a tool, not the main way you learn something as we cannot see your games and evaluate the same way someone in your local group(s) will be able to.

Peace

Please, read "The Intent and Purpose of the Rules", p.8 2012-13 NFHS Rules Book. The second paragraph mentions advantage, and disadvantage.
And please, don't be so defensive when one of our officiating community is direct in his admonition. Whether one accepts or ignores advice that is offered will not affect he who offered the advice, but can be of great value to the one receiving it . . . if he experiments on the concepts involved.

Trying to explain to you that you don't understand something when you think you do is not busting your butt nor is it reminding you how much you don't know. We're trying to get past your defensive posture and help you understand the things you can't read in a rule book.

One way is to stop watching games with your basketball fan hat on (burn it) and start watching with your official's hat on.

You can't watch from a fan's perspective and understand why the officials make their decisions. You can however, watch from an official's perspective and understand what the fan feels.....