Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 02, 2019

I thought it was when the shoes come off in the locker room.

It’s like pass interference.

Can’t wait for Arlo to try and explain the “Jordan Rules” to Janis.

I stopped following college and pro basketball after it lost the concept of no contact and began to look like playground/street basketball.

If I want to see a gang fight, I’ll watch hockey.

Roundball. Meh.

The only time I pay attention to basketball is March, and then only the final four. Unless my Alma Mater is involved – which is almost never.

It’s true. Lots of handchecking. Bumping. Palming the ball. Taking two steps. But I ramble……

There’s no handsies in basketball!

That “no touching” rule is only when you’re playing Duke.

What did Janis not understand about Arlo’s explanation?

What this country needs is a Tackle Basketball League.

I don’t get this. I have no sports portion of my brain. Help?

I’ve watched a little pro and college hoops and for the life of me I can’t understand traveling or contact fouls. It all appears to be subjective to me. But then I am usually pretty bored after 13 seconds into the “game”.

@HappyDog & @Grace ‘Touching’ happens all the time without getting charged as a foul. She is seeing that. So she thinks he’s avoiding answering.

So while touching the opposing player technically speaking is a foul, most refs only count it as a personal foul if in their opinion it is egregious. Things like charging into another player intentionally; or blocking (pushing – with your body – another player out of your way); tripping or holding or pushing or elbowing; etc. There are also a very few things that don’t involve touching, and there are also ‘technical fouls’ and team fouls.

Too many personal fouls (you ‘fouled out’) and you are sent to the bench, if possible. This basically resets each quarter.Some refs are tighter on such distinctions, some are looser. Most also vary their decisions on what to call based on the player. So if a player is known to be very aggressive, many refs let him get away with more because of the ‘let them play’ principle. People are there to watch the guys play, and with some aggressive players you’d be calling a foul every few seconds.

And then you get the rare vindictive ref who calls a foul on a player for something they would accept from anybody else. Or maybe to get that player off the court.All of these rules vary: are you talking about the NBA, WNBA, College, High School, Street, Harlem Globetrotters, etc?

Judging by that explanation, he hasn’t been watching the same games I have, pro and college.

I stopped watching basketball when it became a full contact sport.

Its when one player sneaks in a knuckle duster & short punches to the opponent’s kidney.

Maybe it’s one of those Schroedinger’s Cat things: it depends on how observable it is.

Actually, Arlo is correct. A foul is committed any time one player touches a player on the opposing team.

I have no idea where the “rugby scrum” form of play came from, but the blatant “fouling” which occurs on today’s basketball courts would have EVERYBODY EJECTED from the game in the first 10 minutes!

What occurs on today’s courts has about the same relevance to “basketball” as professional wrestling has to “real” wrestling! They are both pitiful jokes designed for ONE THING, and one thing only – to “entertain” cretins with single-digit I.Q.s.