laxfan25
03-01-2006, 09:32 PM
I always enjoy cruising through publications, looking for things that might be called as violations. Here is a recent picture (identity changed to protect the guilty :chuckle: )
I would assume you would never let someone face off with their hand in this position, but would you let them go cradling by, working one on one on a D man? I thought one of the definitions of withholding the ball from play was cradling with your hand on the plastic? Here it looks like he's got his hand wrapped around the head. How difficult would it be to slip the thumb up over the pocket? Do you have to wait to see him actually thumb the ball to call this? As some know, in previous years I always made this call, but got tired of swimming upstream against the tide, and this is the result. Best to leave it as a "no-call"?
I would assume you would never let someone face off with their hand in this position, but would you let them go cradling by, working one on one on a D man? I thought one of the definitions of withholding the ball from play was cradling with your hand on the plastic? Here it looks like he's got his hand wrapped around the head. How difficult would it be to slip the thumb up over the pocket? Do you have to wait to see him actually thumb the ball to call this? As some know, in previous years I always made this call, but got tired of swimming upstream against the tide, and this is the result. Best to leave it as a "no-call"?