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Message: [QUOTE="Cowtown, post: 2805198, member: 2350"] I understand the game last night was one-sided in the view of most here. I'm not saying it wasn't. I didn't see it, so I'm not speaking to anything that happened there. Actually, the semi circle under the basket was put there because too often players were trying to draw charge calls in that area, and screwing up the game. Worse, players were getting hurt. Defenders "late to the party" were routinely sliding in under already airborne shooters. Seems nobody understood the shooter has to have a place to land, nor did anyone want to. But gravity always works. Then, they'd get up and bitch that they had position before the contact. Well, actually "No, you didn't." The interpretation/application in that play was "If you don't have position before the shooter left the floor, you can't have it when he comes down." Players would just say "The refs are wrong" and kept doing it. So then the interpretation became you had to have position "before the shooter commits to leaving the floor." A problem the semi-circle [I]did[/I] create, however, is that the three main leagues NBA, NCAA and FIBA, all have their own rule books (and refs), with different interpretations and applications. People watch NBA and see one interpretation - based on a system in which the stars get [I]every[/I] call regardless of the rule - then watch NCAA and see a different rule/interpretation/application. Another problem is stupid-assed players who think they can go to the basket no matter how many defenders are in the way, and they still think they should "get the call." Another one is very few players, and even very few coaches, understand what legal guarding position (LGP) is. Beat your opponent to the spot, facing him, with both feet on the floor. And then if you've done [I]that[/I], you can move to maintain position. But if you turn your hips to run with the ball handler, you've given up LGP and have to re-establish it through the same process. I don't know what to do about flopping. That won't change until coaches and players decide it has to stop. For it's about honesty and integrity, and some coaches and players will do [I]anything[/I] to win. Well, the refs can't be inside their heads and know their intent. Then the goddam announcers who know [I]nothing [/I]about the rule book show the play over and over on slow-mo and point out how the refs are always wrong. The ref gets one look in real time. Period. They can't be perfect, but they can be consistent. Everyone needs to accept that. But no, it's "My team right or wrong, but [I]my team![/I]" [/QUOTE]

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