Roy Williams really hates the new block-charge rule

By Jason Jennings
Nov 19, 2009

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Roy Williams is one of the many college basketball coaches who voiced his displeasure before the season about the new imaginary lane underneath the basket where a defender cannot draw a charge. In his Wednesday press conference, the UNC coach went into great detail on how the rule affected a block-charge call in the previous night’s game between Gonzaga and Michigan State.

“The Gonzaga kid was standing there. His feet were on the lane line so it was nowhere close to being underneath the basket,” Williams said. “He’d already gotten out his iced tea, added the sugar to it, added the extra lemon, got back in his perfect stance and the guy ran over him and the referee comes out and calls it ‘block.’…In my mind, there’s no way [the referee] wasn’t thinking about that stupid imaginary line.”

“The kid was in there long enough to fill an income tax return.”

Williams says he was on the rules committee and was in favor of a painted line indicating a “no-charge” zone and not a lane that is up to a referee’s interpretation. “It’s one of those things that we’ve done that hasn’t helped the officials at all. I think it has hurt them…and I hate it for the officials.”

Williams again started talking about the call from the Gonzaga-Michigan State game and referred to it as “ridiculous” before grinning and thinking to stop criticizing officials, even if it was from a different game.

“Can I get in trouble for this?” he asked laughing.

“This press conference has deteriorated a great deal,” Williams smiled while leaving. “Figure out how to cover that up so I don’t get in trouble.”

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RE: Roy Williams really hates the new block-charge rule

What a baby.

RE: Roy Williams really hates the new block-charge rule

It's pretty stupid that they didn't have the schools paint a line. It will be another problem.

RE: Roy Williams really hates the new block-charge rule

Inside the foul lane is still in front of the basket. The problem is the NCAA has a drawn out process for implementing rules. Apparently painting the court must go through various committees and has to be done with some notice since schools would need to take the time and effort to do it on the court. The NCAA said they wanted the rule now because doing something was better than doing nothing never mind the doing something was completely impossible to properly officiate without lines on the court.

RE: Roy Williams really hates the new block-charge rule

It's simple. Just make it inside the foul lane....

RE: Roy Williams really hates the new block-charge rule

An Imaginary line, ooohhh scary...how much would it cost to paint a fricken half circle?

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