Held ball or foul?

[Pantherdreams]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Panther, this is the basketball board. Perhaps your intended for your post to be on the football board.

Nope I got the right one. We don't play football around here and if we do its 3 downs with unlimited people in motion so its really not the same anyway.

This may just be my opinion but if we are talking about rough play a player ending up contacting or on top of another player during the course of a contact sport doesn't seem excessive.

If we are scaling rough play in a non basketball sense. If siblings are rolling around on the floor or grass tugging at a ball thats not really problematic. Someone throws a kick, punch or dirty shot that is problematic.

On any given basketball possession players can clip themselves trip over a teammates limb, fight through limbs and contact, get stove piped on a screen that doesn't get communicated by a teammate, catch an elbow on a post move/screen/rebound, etc . .. all of which may be legal/incidental. All of which are have more severe physical/emtional repsonse (pain, embarassment, frustration) then a body ending up on top of you temporarily.

Most people IME are less likely to react to someone who ends up ontop of them in the course of making a play on the ball then they are to some jabbing at them, striking at them with limbs or shoving/popping them on rebounds and screens. If I am supposed to call fouls to make sure I'm not encouraging rough play I'm getting as many of those as I can I'm not worried about two bodies that end up on top of one another after I was going to call a jump ball anyway.