Moran flop or no?

[Nacho]

according to the statistics on statsheet.com,
Steve Welmer is #2 in all of Division I basketball in number of fouls called...

Is this total fouls, or fouls per game? Because I remember ESPN or someone doing a large piece on Welmer and he has officiated more games in that last several years then any other official (except last year as he broke his leg early in the year)... this would account for TOTAL fouls called...

 

[houstontxbrave]

I figure the dropping the shoulder only matters if the player does it when he intentionally initiates contact-- trying to post up or make room for himself. In my opinion a guy who slides in front of the player (in this case wildly dives) without having established any sort of position anywhere cannot really be "charged." Any more knowledgeable fans/refs care to comment. I thought this play was either a no-call or a blocking foul, but never a charge.

That might be an even bigger point is that Moran never established defensive position. He was sliding with DSE as DSE drove from the left side of the court to the ft line. DSE made his move ie shoulder/extending arm while Moran was sliding.

I do believe a charge can be called if a player has established defensive position along and if contact was initiated by the offensive player. I dont even think Moran was sliding past or had closed off DSE with defensive positioning, I thought he was sliding with DSE.

Now I would think regardless of defender position if an offensive player initiates contact with lowering of the shoulder he caused the foul. DSE did lower a shoulder but that action did not cause Moran to fall to the ground. But even if it did, Moran was not infront of DSE and his position to even take a charge was questionable since his feet were still sliding and he was moving.

I truely believe Sanzier and others... the surfer haired guy, officiate the MVC much differently then they do when they do Big 12, Big 10 or other BCS conferences. No way either the tip or the charge are made anywhere other then the MVC. To many times soft plays turn into fouls.

 

[AZ BU Fan]

Also, when did it become acceptable for a point guard (Alleghebe sp?) to extend his off arm into the defenders chest at will. I mean, and review the tape if u disagree, but this guy does it almost EVERY time he drives inside the 3 point line, every time. This is legal? I don't understand that.

I think Sammy uses this same technique every now and then to get some space from his defender....

Whatever happened to the crackdown on defenders hand checking wing players? It seems this is a normal part of the game again.

Re officials just waiting to call a moving screen on SS, if you have that reputation, there will be more awareness by the officials. Several of SS moving screens are a result of BU's ballhandlers not driving their man into SS, they don't dribble the ball close enough to SS once he is set for screens to work. Sam ends up sliding over towards the BU guard as he is passing by.

Sam Singh should know better than to continue to do this, and BU's ballhandlers need to know how to better run their man into a screen.