TAMU @ LSU Block/Charge? (Video)

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by walt

To me that is an easy PC.

Agreed

[mutantducky]

super close, but it appears the defender is still moving and not set so a block. Well I know Jay Bilas would call it a block so that's good enough for me!

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by mutantducky

... the defender is still moving and not set so a block.

Sounds like "coach talk" to me.

Things Officials Should Probably Not Be Saying In A Game

“He wasn’t set”, is often an official’s answer to a coach who is questioning a blocking foul on his player. This implies that a defensive player must be set, and can’t move, to take a charge, while, in reality, the rules say otherwise. A defensive player does not have to remain stationary to take a charge. A defender may turn away or duck to absorb contact, provided he, or she, has already established legal guarding position, which is both feet on the playing court and facing the opponent. The defender can always move backwards, or sideways, to maintain a legal guarding position, and may even have one, or both feet, off the floor when contact occurs. That player may legally rise vertically. However, if the defender is moving forward, then the contact is caused by the defender, which, in this case, is a blocking foul.