Selling a block/charge no-call

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by La Rikardo

In a close game like this I wanted to give A the benefit of the doubt, and with that in mind this just felt like a no-call.

Would you have called a charge in the first half?

[La Rikardo]

Originally Posted by bainsey

Would you have called a charge in the first half?

Probably not, honestly.

Maybe my description of the play to emphasized the lack of fault on the part of B1 more than I should have...replaying the play in my mind, I still feel like the no-call was correct here. I'd love to be able to see it again, but I don't have video of the game.

Then again, in hindsight, I also probably could've saved myself a headache by calling PC. I guess all of this comes with experience.

[just another ref]

Originally Posted by La Rikardo

I also probably could've saved myself a headache by calling PC.

This is not ever a reason to make a call, but you already knew that.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by La Rikardo

Probably not, honestly.

Maybe my description of the play to emphasized the lack of fault on the part of B1 more than I should have...replaying the play in my mind, I still feel like the no-call was correct here. I'd love to be able to see it again, but I don't have video of the game.

Then again, in hindsight, I also probably could've saved myself a headache by calling PC. I guess all of this comes with experience.

I officiated H.S. soccer for 12 years and since you state that soccer is your primary sport, I get the feeling that you are trying to apply soccer's advantage philosophy to basketball. When officiating basketball forget soccer's advantage philosophy.

In basketball there is the Oswald Tower Philosophy of Advantage-Disadvantage but is not the same as soccer's advantage philosophy.

MTD, Sr.

P.S. Finally Good Night.

[constable]

I had a play last week. A1 drives to the hoop. B1 in LGP goes down way before A1 makes any contact. I tell B1 to get up.

Next stoppage I warn him about flopping. I go by the bench during the next TO and tell B's HC about the flopping and the subsequent warning I issued.

His response: "you gotta call the kick ball!"

I literally snickered at him and then jogged to my next spot.