Wisconsin-Arizona Player Control Foul (Video)

[Toren]

Block, before the start of the upward motion.

Followed by an offensive foul.

[Multiple Sports]

Bear with me on this....I went to an NBA game last year, with arguably one of the top three guys in the NBA. He had a similar play with around 5.8 on the clock and he called a blocking foul as lead on the play, where the contact occured at the elbow. I asked him why he didn't let the play go and apply the SDF mentality. His reasoning was ( in a 1 possession game, team with ball is up one in his game) by calling foul immediately, team up 1 makes two free throws, the team down three has still has chance with 4.5 on clock. And "and 1" make it a 4pt game with two less seconds and game is essentialy over.

Had a block on this been called immediately and Arizona goes to line and makes both free throws, Wisconsin still had chance to get a darn good shot / play off on other end. I realize that the NBA would put ball in frontcourt, etc. etc.

However the logic makes a hell of a lot of sense.....just food for thought !!!!!

Again purists may disagree, but that school of thought will eventually trickle down to the D1......

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Multiple Sports

Bear with me on this....I went to an NBA game last year, with arguably one of the top three guys in the NBA. ......

I'm not Scott Foster, but I too have an immediate blocking foul on this play.

In fact I had a similar play to this with about 13 seconds left and offense down by 1. He hits both ends of 1-and-1 and other team hits a 3-pointer to win the game. Observer was happy I put a whistle on the body bump.

[Multiple Sports]

BNR - Do you have an immediate from lead, when you are trained as a SDF guy on a play at the elbow. Normally you aren't thinking of making a call there or even on ball as the lead on that play.... BTW - the "outing of Foster", will cost you dinner on weekend of May 16- 18 !!!!!

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Multiple Sports

BNR - Do you have an immediate from lead, when you are trained as a SDF guy on a play at the elbow. Normally you aren't thinking of making a call there or even on ball as the lead on that play.... BTW - the "outing of Foster", will cost you dinner on weekend of May 16- 18 !!!!!

Well, I know you really meant to say "with arguably one of the top one guys in the NBA"

I was the Trail (but Lead had just rotated and I did not vacate my positioning yet), drive started at the stop of the key, curled in my direction, and bump occurred right at the elbow.