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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3922766, member: 199"] I think there is a fair amount of over reaction to contact - and it goes both ways with fantastic flops and the head toss to signify a roundhouse rather than a light tap. The refs generally do pretty well considering everything. The issue I have is when I do see major, non-basketball move contact and they do not review it. They have the tools, and the game has natural stoppages so they don't have to interrupt live play if no call was made. If a call was made, play is already stopped. There was a play in the TA&M game where a player was decked on a transition drive - put on her back, and it was just called a common shooting foul, with no video review. Part of that is on the AZ coach. I see plenty of coaches getting refs to review non-called fouls after the next stoppage. On the breakaway - the ref has the option of calling a flagrant 1 or 2, if contact is excessive or a non-basketball move - typically it is a sloppy attempt at a block or a clumsy reach-in by the last defender at mid-court. That's been around for ever and is 'legitimate' in my view. [/QUOTE]