Block/Charge/No Call? (Video)

Originally Posted by Rich

Good defense doesn't require standing in there and "taking it like a man."

It is according to the Unwritten Rules for Officiating Division 1 Basketball Handbook™!

[constable]

Originally Posted by AremRed

It is according to the Unwritten Rules for Officiating Division 1 Basketball Handbook™!

Ya I didn't read anything Blias or Dickie V have authored.

It is a simple matter of physics. If a players upper body starts going down before they are contacted in their lower extremities...

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by constable

Ya I didn't read anything Blias or Dickie V have authored.

It is a simple matter of physics. If a players upper body starts going down before they are contacted in their lower extremities...

I'll finish that for you...

....it is entirely irrelevant.

The call is simple, does the offensive player go through the space legally obtained by the defender? If the defender starts fading back AND the offense still hits them, that only magnifies the fact that the offensive player went through their space.