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[QUOTE="Ghost, post: 2930833, member: 581"]
I think people are way overemotional about these calls, and that's largely on officials butchering them.  The defender should absolutely be able to take a charge.  That being said, I would call that a shooting foul.

To me, he's still trying to become a wall when the dude enters his shooting motion, if the defender isn't an innocent bystander, and is still sliding AT ALL into a wall, shooters fouled.  If Tanner slapped the shooters arms before Schofield had stopped planting his right foot, and moving his upper body, it's a shooting foul.

So, Schofield fouled IMO because he's still trying to slide into a defensive position while the shooter is in motion.

Once you enter that motion, you're stuck in a path, if the defender can anticipate that path - then he has to play defense, and not wall off the court.  He's still shimmying enough where the offensive player can't really decide how best to avoid him after he's set his course to shoot.  That's enough for me to call it defensive.

It's so  close though.  Hard to be that upset.
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