get some calls again going forward on another fast break and i wanted to get your your insights into what you think happened here why the refs didn't blow the whistle on this drive against uh tj mcconnell yeah well on this on this drive this is a normal basketball play he drives to the hoop and i'm looking at it now and i'm gonna put my glasses on for you coach so make sure i'm not missing anything as i get a little older but on this drive there's definitely contact by the defender as he turns his body and even raises his arm a bit it interferes with with jo with hardin's drive uh you know this this is a legitimate this is a legitimate play that is never going to go away in basketball but again there's harden there's his his creativity and i think he gets guys and gals that we have on staff a little bit confused as to gee is this the foul we're talking about or not this is a deserving of a whistle for a foul for harden oh interesting okay yeah i was looking at this really closely too and i'm thinking was there a right elbow by hardin that might have gotten too much contact it would have been an offensive foul but no it looks pretty clean there uh i think again in the notion of like this is james harden one of the best scorers of all time you know this is the call that he might normally get in a fast break situation early in the game and the referees clearly seem to be making an effort to you know you know make this game go smoother and not blow as many whistles yeah uh listen you know this is a very creative offensive player and uh and as as you as we go even into the third play yeah uh that you'll you'll look at it is another example of a forearm placed across a player's body to impede his progress to the whole now everybody knows this all of us we've we've refereed this action for quite a while it is an effective way to slow down an offensive player so he can catch up with him so not now that he doesn't only put one one hand he puts two hands so we're now when now the hardener is trying to gather the ball he can't really get to the ball now i know this is a a hook that he's done at times but in this particular case you've got to get the first foul before he even elects to do something else because this is a major infeed now a foul of this nature might get some of these referees confused as they look for a possible hook but he's coming to the ball the ball and his second hand which is his left hand is coming to the ball and he's being interfered with on that play that defender knows exactly what he's doing and he probably thinks he's allowed to do it that i'm raising my voice a little bit should be a foul for sure and i think that this is the problem we're getting now because yes we know that hooking call is something they tried to clean up a couple of years ago and i totally get it and that must have been on the face of it what it appeared to the
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