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Message: [QUOTE="OldSchooler, post: 4473075, member: 11804"] Re the charge/block call, I'm old enough to remember (or maybe I'm just imagining) when a charge was only called when the defender held a rigid position for a full second before contact. The game has obviously sped up too much for that rule/interpretation to be workable. Re foul calls in general, I went to college in the Boston area back in the Auerbach days, and I listened to the Celtics games on the radio. The Celts were good enough, in those days, that they didn't need any help, but in 4 years, according to their longtime radiocaster Johnny Most (Bill Bradley used to call him "Johnny Least"), the Celts never lost a game fair and square.. Either the other team "spent the entire night at the foul line," or the refs swallowed their whistles while the other team "out-muscled the Celts all night long." [/QUOTE]