WSR Full Court Report

Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!

We need rules that favor the defense. That stupid change about hand checking 5 years ago ruined perimeter defense and that damn arc on the floor near the hoop is ludicrous.

I don't even like goal tending. IF you can knock the ball away, you should be able to as long as it is not below the horizontal plane of the hoop.

I hate where basketball is going... the NBA game is unwatchable and college needs to not follow suit. Any game where the teams combine for more than 100 points is suspect, IMO. when 1 team can score 100 - it's a disaster.

Here's the new rules regarding consideration for block/charge:

To help address that circumstance, the committee approved guidelines to help better administer these rules:

Before the offensive player (with the ball) becomes airborne, the defender must have two feet on the floor, be facing the opponent and be stationary to draw a charge. Otherwise, it should be a blocking foul.

Secondary defenders (help defenders) moving forward or to the side are also in violation and those should be blocking fouls.

Contact that is “through the chest” is not de facto proof of a charge. The rule in its entirety must be considered before determining a foul.

In some cases, it appears a defender is being rewarded solely for being outside the arc, without considering the other aspects of the rules.

**Personally, I thought the first point was a given for a "block" call (sliding underneath a ball handler who's already left the floor should be a foul). As for the others, my biggest complaint was the notion that all a defender had to do was get his feet set outside the mini arc to warrant a charge. That's crap, and I'm glad there will hopefully be a change to simply call a charge a charge and a block a block based on 100's of years of basketball precedent.

Just Wow! We can decide a game with T's, and this has to favor the home team big time. It will be like deciding a soccer game with free kicks.

I think of Lute when I read these little gems (he wasn't profane or vulgar, but he did the following plenty of times):

"including waving or thrashing the arms in disgust, dramatizing contact by re-enacting the play, or running or jumping “in disbelief” over a call/non-call."

"emphatically removing one’s coat in response to a call/no-call"

Let's just jump to the logical conclusion. "All players and coaches must remain emotionless but always must engage with refs in a positive manner."

Well I really hope that doesn't get out of hand. It will be interesting how refs use them. If they target certain coaches that maybe aren't as liked than others, or if they only use it in extreme circumstances.