BasketballMind wrote:Thundersnow wrote:Officials will be criticized after virtually every game by someone. If officials were to take BasketballMind's "solution to the problem" there would be outcries from people saying, "They called too many fouls! Player X got 2 fouls in the first 3 minutes and he never had a chance to impact the game!"
Maybe AI will become smart enough to take over all sports officiating and no one will ever complain again.
Not what I’m suggesting at all. Tell the players in the meeting before the game starts not to hand check on the perimeter, and in the post you can’t armbar a guy out of the post. Establish that as the way you’ll call the game. Call it that way the entire season. Teams will adjust, players will adjust. Then, and this is the most important factor, don’t bring in guys from the good old boys club that referee college basketball the majority of the winter to do your tournaments. But good job assuming and projecting.
Most pregame meetings with team captains cover stuff like this. About 10 years ago or so, the NFHS put out a POE that aimed to clean up hand checking, hip checking, and arm bars. This mirrored the NCAA POE from the year prior. The NCAA noticed lower scoring games due to restricted movement caused by overly physical play. Average scores increased as a result. I noticed a similar impact on high school due to the POE and introduction of the shot clock.
I cannot remember what year it was (before 2010) or who Dickenson Trinity played in the state title game, but that was the ugliest basketball game at that level I ever saw. It was then I hoped for something to change. It took a few years but someone finally did something about it.