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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 3349072, member: 730"] I've seen a very wide interpretation of the rule. What constitutes "getting to the position" seems to vary from official to official and even sometimes with the same official in the same game. I've seen countless blocking calls where the person with the ball driving to the hoop suddenly leaves the path to the hoop and drives their shoulder square into the chest of the defender when the defender had clearly got to the position first, but was still moving The stated reason is always that the defender was moving. I remember UConn player Banks driving down the lane and getting called for a charge (and injuring her knee) when the defender jumped into her path only got her right foot on the ground and got hit in her right leg. It looked like a trip to me, but then I already said I'm lacking in knowledge. I was told once by an official who did college games that his way of calling it was where the defender got hit. If they hit the defender square in the chest it was a charge and everything else was a block. Today I watched an Oregon defender hit a ball handler while she (the defender) was moving forward into the ball handler. I don't profess to know much about rule interpretation but I do know inconsistency when I see it. [/QUOTE]