I don’t know what constitutes a standard foul when a ball carrier possesses the ball and then the defender makes contact with said ball carrier. What contact is the foul?
1) Touching the body of the ball carrier
2) Touching the arms of the ball carrier
3) Touching the ball dribbling arm of the ball carrier
4) Paying the officials before the game and not after
Seriously, it’s easy to think officials are paid when they miss an obvious call on Chase Hunter’s defender but instead call traveling.
The conference wants Duke, who plays tonight without Colonel Flagg, to go against the team that hasn’t beaten them. Easy to think corruption is the rule over law.
Watch any game and the defender has to just allow the defender to pound their body into them, but then if they lean back too hard, if the offensive player falls, if the refs realize they didn’t register enough fouls the first half, etc, it’s suddenly a foul. Kids get knocked out of bounds all the time now and there’s no call. After banging into each other in the post, then you barely touch a player away from basket and it’s a foul. There’s no rhyme or reason to any of it. That’s why you randomly get key players in foul trouble.
You go from prison yard street ball without refs (4 total fouls the first 18 minutes) to both teams in the bonus five minutes into the second half.