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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 4542901, member: 966"] I thought it was a charge. The defender can be moving backward and it’s still a charge. Feet don’t have to be set. That has always been my understanding anyway. Bizarre that it isn’t so easy to find a definitive documentation of this online. This is from the NBA: [B][I]“The defender is permitted to establish his legal guarding position in the path of the dribbler regardless of his speed and distance. To get into a legal position, the defender needs to establish himself in the path of the offensive player before contact is made, thus ‘beating him to the spot,’ and before he starts his upward shooting motion.”[/I][/B] The Carolina defender was playing excellent defense. He doesn’t have to give Judah room to both drive directly into him, toward the hoop and swing his arms around. Judah’s responsibility is to beat the defender to the spot, and have enough room to execute his move. The latter part of that is nuanced. The defender cannot impede upon the ballhandler’s space, but when both are moving (toward the basket in this instance), the defender has no obligation to give the offensive player more room to execute a move he cannot possibly predict. That all said, I disagreed with the assessment of a technical, because Judah was executing a basketball move, with no intent to cause that particular contact. But, that again is nuanced and the offensive player still needs to operate in a manner that ensures dangerous contact doesn’t occur. If they deemed Judah’s move as ‘reckless’ and then that recklessness subsequently causes damage, then they can assess the Tech level 1. It didn’t help Judah’s case that this was the second incident in the same game, and with the same player, in similar circumstances. Charge/block calls are made in the interest of player safety as well as for competitive balance. And seemimgly Against my record on Boeheim, I sorta expected and didn’t condemn JB’s choice to have Judah run that end of game scenario. Judah has “melted down” in several late game situations this year, so it would have possibly been safer to choose someone else, but in real time, I kinda expected JB to call his number. Because building responsibility and trust start with giving him the opportunity again. As when your star running back has just fumbled on the previous possession, you start out the next one by giving him the ball. The result was bad. The intent and reasoning were sound. He’s your most talented player, he’s the starting PG. You have to try to trust him. Who else? Joe is too easy to guard as the primary ball handler in that situation. Who else? Gotta ride with your PG and hope he understands what needs to be done. He didn’t. Sadly, we have a staff full of ex-guards, yet our guard play has not improved this season. Judah is largely the same player as he was back in the St John’s game. IQ has not improved. Symir doesn‘t seem to have taken a step forward, even from the promise he showed at the end of last season. Copeland is still a [I]break glass only in the event of emergency[/I] option. [/QUOTE]

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