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You know, maybe it's just an uneducated eye, but this is part of the reason I never gained much of a liking for basketball.
It seems to be one of those sports where cheating is overlooked so that spectacular things which might otherwise be rendered impossible by the rules can take place. I mean, how many guys hve you seen make huge dunks by dribbling about halfway to it, grabbing the ball in both hands, and taking two or three gigantic strides towards the basket, then leaping and dunking?
Traveling, double dribbles, carrying, the complete disregard for charging unless the defender throws himself on the floor...
Seems rampant to me. This seems pretty standard. I doubt the refs would simply fail to call just this one guy on every drive of his life...right? Would you not expect that the existence of a video like this would lend some evidence for the conclusion that these sorts of transgressions are largely overlooked?
Re: traveling: I think you're thinking of the NBA. Traveling in the NBA is, as it were, a running joke.
Yeah, you'd think this video would have an effect. I mean, it's not a close call. Dude is traveling, and no, other players don't do the same thing. In fact, when called for traveling for such a move in the McDonald's AA game, Rivers screamed at the ref that that was "his signature move," and it's why he was "the number one recruit in the country." It's unique to him, and it's definitely traveling.
Why isn't it called? Nobody can figure that out. It's well-known that many refs are rather scared of Kryzyewski. If he doesn't like you, you are in trouble, and these refs only make about $2000/game, apparently.
The NCAA is a business. A ref that took on one of the most powerful and ill-tempered coaches in all of college hoops, neutralizing his one-and-done star recruit...well, that would be a whole shitstorm, I expect...
Ah yes, I was lumping NBA and college hoops in my head. That's the key.
Though I will say, the last game I watched between UVA and UNC included some guy (on UNC?) constantly leaning over in a weird posture and reaching into other players' cylinders and touching them while they had the ball. It wasn't an attempt to steal, he'd just reach out and put his hand on the other player and leave it there until the player moved. I couldn't figure that one out. Seemed pretty illegal to me?
That's hand-checking. Like other rules, this one has evolved. Hand-checking the offensive player makes it marginally easier to defend against him. I think the official rule says that you can't impede their progress, and I think any time you have two hands on the offensive player it's supposed to be a hand-check, but the rule is a mess in that it just isn't enforced.
Duke incidentally, is famous for hand-checking semi-constantly. One former ref wrote on IC that the refs simply can't call them all or the game would be slowed down too much.
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