Tracy Smith Suspended One Game

Arizona is relieved that they won’t have to use their decontamination facilities, or mad that they build them only for them to go unused?

i would just like to reemphasize that this sucks big time. I would have much rather seen Tracy stomp on Chas after his flop and get suspended for a game. At least he would have gotten his money’s worth.

while its unfortunate that Smith is suspended there is another issue that bothers me. is it a foul when player lands on top of a shooter after blocking his shot? at this time, i would like to plead before the court of public opinion that when Ish Smith blocked Scott Wood’s shot in the second half, Smith should have been whistled for an intentional flagrant foul allowing Wood to shoot to free shots and State to get the ball out of bounds. i use as support for my case Courtney Felds v. Virginia Tech player, February 2009, Blacksburg Virginia. in said case when Felds blocked said Virginia Tech player’s shot the official judge ruled that while said Felds blocked the shot cleanly, he after blocking the shot, intentionally and flagrantly fouled said Virginia Tech player too hard such that said Virginia Tech player was to given two free throw shots and Virginia Tech awarded the ball out of bounds. This case set a presidence for two foul shots and the awarding of the ball out of bounds to the shooter and his team when a player intentionally flagrantly fouls a player when blocking said players shot. :-).

a couple of typo errors in my previous post. should have been “when a player lands on top…” and “Wood to shoot two free throw shots”. please accept my apology for such errors.

that plays like that are automatic fouls, but there are definitely many instances where they should be fouls. I think if a player can not block the shot of another player without clobbering them afterwards, a foul call is warrented. I know that I have been called for such fouls in organized games. I also know that if I see a defender flying at me when I shoot it, and I know he is going to collide with me, it can often alter my shot even if I know he has no chance of actually blocking the shot.

Let’s look at it another way. How many times have you seen a player attempt to block a shot, miss the block, and then collide into the shooter after the shooter releases the ball? That describes a large percentage of 3 or 4 (in the case of a 3 point shooter) point plays. Why should the defenders’ contact with the ball make a difference?

the flagrant foul Cliff Crawford got (against clemson or GT I think) when he swiped over an offensive player’s head to make a clean block while defending against a fast break? The block was perfectly clean, but the ref ruled it flagrant because he swung his arm so fast over the other player’s head that it could have been dangerous that the ref ruled it flagrant (or maybe the ref was just an idiot and had the result of the play in his head prior to it actually happening). That kind of shit only happens to NCSU.