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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 3377565, member: 5798"] Eric, I agree with your take on players drawing charging fouls. Times gave changed. When I played high school and college bb, the hard fast rule was you had to be established AND give them a step to draw a charging foul. Your feet could not be moving, and you could not be leaning. You had to beat the player to the spot. Even way back then, it was funny to see the “floppers” start leaning backwards BEFORE any contact was made. Not so today. I’ve seen players draw charging fouls while they and their feet were still moving. SMH. :confused: I played a lot of basketball during those years. You’d see the same referees over and over. After a while, you knew how they were going to call the game. You knew exactly what you could get away with, and what you couldn’t. I must admit, most of them were fairly consistent. Of course there was always that one ref that was out of control, and consistently made some of the worst calls ever. You know, the one that would always cause your coach to get tee’d up. You hated to have him call your game. :confused: Charging/blocking calls are really not that hard to make. The player is either established or not. That means BOTH feet flat on the floor, and not leaning or sticking a body part out (arm, elbow, knee, etc). [/QUOTE]