'Displacement' is an insanely difficult call to make in the age of the 'flop' and even moreso in HS girls basketball where they fall at the thought of a collision (except in Northmont...right Clayton?).
That's why flopping should be penalized. I love Kennard but I can't believe he hasn't been hospitalized weekly for whiplash. You can't get within 10 feet of him without his head instinctively snapping backwards. I see this behavior trickling down to lower and lower levels of basketball and it's annoying. If/when I get out of officiating, it'll be because the game has become to much like the WWF. With flops, head jerking, kids screaming 'and 1' every time they drive the hoop and coaches stomping all over the place, the trend that direction has already started.
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I shaved my balls for this?
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