kirbivore
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it's a huge call at a pivotal point of the game.
and since it helped JB and SU you hated it
it's a huge call at a pivotal point of the game.
loland since it helped JB and SU you hated it
Not me. I'd have said: Why TF did he lower his shoulder and run over the guy with 10 seconds left?All I know is that if that had been called a charge if the teams had been reversed I’d be apoplectic and there’d be five threads on how the refs affected the outcome of the game.
I’m thrilled with the call. But it wasn’t close to perfect position
The guy lowered his shoulder like he was tackling Merak and hit him in the stomach. How is that not a foul unless u play for Ohio st.Man...I thought it was a bad call and would’ve went nuts if that happened to us...which it has too many times, so the charge loving community of college b-ball refs owed us one.
I was freaking out that we were going to have to go the length of the floor in 5 seconds since we weren’t fouling, and then that happened. Wow. Huge.
Will remember these posts when we get hosed on this exact call
lolI'm surprised how much debate there is over this. It wasn't close at all. That Georgetown player was more likely to get ejected for targeting than MD was to get called for a block.
HUGE. Slid into perfect position to give us the ball back with 10 secs left. Effecting the game with “non-box score plays” was his calling card last year & it’s good to see him rounding back into form after an underwhelming start.
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Neither is running over a guy to get to the basket. I hate that they let guys in the post just push people off with their shouldersI hate charging calls. It’s the weirdest call in basketball. Happy it helped us as we are usually on the other end of this, but it’s not a natural basketball play.
Neither is running over a guy to get to the basket. I hate that they let guys in the post just push people off with their shoulders
Actually that's the preferred position. The defender is allowed to protect himself and that's how it's done. Also there's no argument whether the defender pushed or grabbed the offensive player.
For the record, the rule states that after a player has established legal guarding position, he can move to maintain it. In the NCAA, they want at least one foot on the floor. So the defender can be moving and still draw a charge, as long as those conditions are met.
I'd be interested to hear whether you'd consider that legal guarding position in this instance. I don't think it was egregious, but it looked pretty close to Marek sliding in under a player moving toward the hoop.
Either way I don't consider this a good basketball play and I hate it. Funny that it went in SU's favor for once.
The fact refs usually only call charges when the guy falls down says everything. You want to call push offs fine, but I don't get why officials automatically think its an offensive foul only when a guy falls down. Now I will probably have Cowtown lecture me.
The fact refs usually only call charges when the guy falls down says everything. You want to call push offs fine, but I don't get why officials automatically think its an offensive foul only when a guy falls down. Now I will probably have Cowtown lecture me.