What say you on this dunk? (Video)

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

We had a long thread about assigners telling officials that when there are bodies on the floor there had better be a fouled called.

Therefore, how can there not be a whistle and a foul: either a PC by the dunker or a block by the defender? And there was contact between the two players involved.

Probably because we were talking about "bodies" plural, not "a body" singular. Do you not remember what happened in the video?

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by AremRed

Probably because we were talking about "bodies" plural, not "a body" singular. Do you not remember what happened in the video?

Just because the offensive player made a spectacular leap into the air to attempt a successful dunk, he must do it in a legal manner.

The video shows the offensive player's knee striking the defender in the front of his left shoulder and displaces the defender. Did the defender commit a blocking foul because he did not obtain a LGP before the offensive player went airborne or did he establish a LGP?

An evaluator is going to ask you why you did not put air in the whistle and you will have to use the rules to defend your position. I would expect my student officials to justify their decision to either put air in their whistles or not put air in their whistles. Saying it was a no call is no answer.

MTD, Sr.