We are excited to launch a new segment, 5 Play Challenge, featuring 5 plays that all involve the topic of block charge fouls. This video will show you five block/charge plays, with the official ruling of game and you need to decide whether that call was correct or not. As always, our videos are dedicated to educating basketball officials, and this segment is no exception. Every play in this 5 play challenge shows block charge plays in 3 different ways. The first is the actual, real time speed, version with no alterations followed by the game officials ruling. The second, we slow down and zoom in for a closer, more deliberate look at what happened. The last view we break down and diagram the video with annotated markings to show what actually happened and what the call was a block or a charge based on the written rule.
The 5 play challenge is not set up to explain the rule in detail but instead simply references the written basketball rule and how it applies in this specific video clip. Every block/charge video we show in this segment is clipped from actual footage of high school basketball games, involving high school athletes. The goal is to provide as much possible information to assist in retraining the way we see block/charge plays. The more plays we can see, with explicit explanation, the better we can all get at identifying the correct ruling more consistently.
Video #1
- Contact on an offensive drive to the lane is ruled a block. After closer review, and slowing the play down, we verify the defender moved toward his opponent, outside the frame of his body thus confirming the original ruling of a block to be correct.
Video #2
- More contact in the lane, and another block called by the game official. In a closer look, the contact happened when the defender was moving obliquely and legally maintaining his position. This play should have been ruled, a charge, player control foul.
Video #3
- Player driving the lane once again with the contact being ruled as a block by the game official. After further review, the official was correct in his assessment as the defender moved toward his opponent after he became an airborne shooter.
Video #4
- Dribbler bringing the ball up the court when contact occurs at the division line. Ruling on the court is a block. When examined closer, it shows the defender was moving backward obliquely when contact occurred, thus making the contact the responsibility of the dribbler. Correct ruling is a charge, player control foul.
Video #5
- Drive down lane with a collision in the paint. Official rules a block. But after zooming in reviewing further, the defender established a legal guarding position prior to contact happening. This play should have been ruled a player control foul, charge.
Watching video clips is a good way to stay connected to the skill of officiating basketball but true education and learning can more effectively be attained when each video is annotated with diagrams and shading to point out key teaching points. Taking away and remembering specifics on a rule such as the block/charge is easier when visual aids are used to present in a way that is easy to listen to and understand.
The Officials Institute, and the 5 Play Challenge segment, creates videos in a fun and interesting way to test your ability to properly recognize specific plays, but don't leave you guessing about whether there was a foul, violation or not. Even though we cannot officiate in slow motion or freeze frames, by watching and reviewing video video in this fashion, we are able to "retrain our brain" so we can start seeing plays more accurately when we do see them in real time and increase our ability to get the call right.
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All rules referenced in this video are taken from the official rules book provided by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). To find out more about the NFHS, you can visit them at nfhs.org/