Iowa State/Kansas (Clip Added)

[Rich]

Originally Posted by zm1283

Tally another vote for PC. I like watching Higgins probably more than any other NCAA official, but he missed this one. It happens.

If you're a Twitter guy, follow @JohnHigginsHair -- it's pretty funny.

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by Rich

If you're a Twitter guy, follow @JohnHigginsHair -- it's pretty funny.

Just followed it. That is pretty funny.

Early favorite:

Nothing but flare on that block call. Flare and sculpted bis and tris

[HokiePaul]

Originally Posted by BryanV21

Some of us around here are not as experienced, and therefore do not find these calls (even when slowed down on video) to be so easy. I just ask that you and others avoid making those that have questions feel stupid for not believing things to be as simple.

For the record, I'm not one of these "experienced" officials that you talk about. I'm not trying to make anyone feel stupid.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by HokiePaul

For the record, I'm not one of these "experienced" officials that you talk about. I'm not trying to make anyone feel stupid.

Many people do not have the make up or the ability to take on direct criticism.
Peace

[Adam]

Originally Posted by johnny d

Possibly the first Don Quixote reference on this forum. Nice

I almost forgot you're new here.

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I believe one of our esteemed moderators has an avatar for that.

Who are you calling esteemed?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BryanV21

By the way, and this isn't for JRut... let's cut the hyperbole about this and other calls here being the "easiest call in the World" (or something like that). If they were that easy they wouldn't be posted here for discussion in the first place. I actually find comments like that to be insulting.

A bit of advice, take that stuff in stride.

edit: Feel free to contact a moderator if you think we've missed a personal "attack."

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by BryanV21

"Lateral" movement (in terms of the rule) is related to the movement of the dribbler. The rule book doesn't stop at "the guard may move laterally or obliquely", but continues by saying "...to maintain position".

In this case, the defender did not "maintain position", as his movement sideways caused him to be closer to the dribbler than he originally was when he gained LGP.

So again... what did the dribbler do wrong? He tried going around the defender after the defender had gained LGP, as the book states he must do.

Here is a way you can think about this to perhaps more clearly picture what lateral movement really is....

Put an imaginary wall directly between the defender and the dribbler based on their positions....not the direction the dribbler is moving and without regard to the direction either player is facing. That wall is constantly shifting as the player's move.

As long as the defender is not moving into/through that wall at the time of contact, they are moving laterally or obliquely away and can't commit a block (assuming they had obtained LGP).

If the dribbler is quick enough to get to the side of the defender, the wall will be to the defender's side and a sideways movement by the defender relative to the former positions would now be into that wall and into the dribbler....thus a block. If the defender moves quick enough such that the dribbler is the one coming through the wall, then it is a PC.

[BryanV21]

Originally Posted by Adam

A bit of advice, take that stuff in stride.

edit: Feel free to contact a moderator if you think we've missed a personal "attack."

I didn't feel attacked, as I wasn't going to assume the intentions of those that wrote it. I was just pointing out how that could be taken.

[johnny d]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I believe one of our esteemed moderators has an avatar for that.

I don't pay all that much attention to the avatars or the quotes and titles people use here other than what they say in their actual posts.