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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 4173297, member: 405"]
There's also the nature of the fouls that become normalized, going back to Georgetown, and Butler, and Nova and Huggins, and Cheney back at Temple.  It's been going on a long time.  There are certain things that defenders routinely get away with, and most of them are biased in favor of man defense.

For instance, defenders get right up underneath dribblers.  That's a foul, it's not good defense.  You are physically impeding the dribbler.  That is a textbook "push".

Similarly, Georgetown made a practice of their defenders bending their knees, and sort of using them to trap and initiate contact with offensive players when they would trap.  The offensive guy would often get called for the foul trying to break out of the "Knee Trap".

Swiping down for steals, often catching the offensive player's forearm, is tolerated way more often than swiping [I]across[/I] the arms.  It's still the same contact.  It's still a foul.  But only 1 is usually called.

Now, think about the closeouts in the zone, where guys are literally flying at shooters.  We get called on more of those than are probably actually fouls.

Standing-still defensive fouls on bigs seem to get called on us an awfully lot in the zone, whereas big men playing man to man are allowed to bang on each other much more, due to the nature of the defense they're playing.

Both the "Phantom Fly-Outs" and the "Standing Still Block" have often become "anticipation" calls against the zone defender.

It works against us with the officials, I'm convinced.
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