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Message: [QUOTE="Cowtown, post: 1657526, member: 2350"] Well, here's a thought, it's also the same "wiggle room" that allows the officials to not interfere in a well played game. Block/charge is an entirely different situation from lane violations. No one gets hurt based on whether a lane violation is called. But players can get seriously hurt in a block/charge situation, even if you get the call right. If you throw out block/charge altogether (as has sometimes been advocated here) you'll have defensive players jumping in front of fast-moving or airborne players all the time, and very soon it would be rugby on a gym floor at best, and fights & brawls at worst. The problem with block/charge is the concept that the player with the ball must expect to be closely guarded. This means the defender does not have to give "time and distance" (in application, a full step) to the ball handler. This was in conflict with the concept that an airborne player must be allowed a place to land, and the application based on "if you didn't have position before the player leaves the floor, you can't have it after." So the old way was as long as you have established LGP (legal guarding position) before the offensive player leaves the floor, it's a charge or a no-call. But that has led to where we are now - inconsistency, injuries and no one's happy. So now the determination is supposed to be that the defender has to have LGP before the offensive player "commits to leaving the floor." This places more onus on the defender to play better positional defense sooner. But it takes time to get this across to the thousands of officials out there, many of whom spent a lot of time and energy getting the old way right, only now to have to move off the model. And the CJ Fair play at Duke was, to me, a 50/50, and one can easily argue it either way and not be wrong, but that's not a popular position around parts extant. :D So, simply changing the application of the rule doesn't solve the problem either. [/QUOTE]

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