The difference being in basketball you have 5 personal fouls before you are ejected from the game whereas we dont have a similar process in Ultimate.
Personally I hate the lame calls that pepper some games due to incidental contact and then the holier than thou discussions that take place afterwards...But then I grew up playing basketball...and that has referees... > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:50:06 +0200 > From: Steve G <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [BD] Physicality in ultimate > To: Steven Hunter <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi BD, > > I think quite a bit of the flexibility in contact comes from the North > American side of things. If you watch any NCAA or NBA basketball > where non-contact is also a requirement, there are moments in a game > where they do intentionally foul a player to let them have two shots > from the free throw line rather than allow them to run down the clock, > or get a 3 point shot away. Tactical fouls in a non-contact sport are > accepted. > > With this precedent set, it doesn't take long before players from one > game translate that mentality to Ultimate. It's not considered the > same as lying about something like a disc being up or down or a foot > in or out or diving to draw a red card. It's using the rules and > accepting the punishments to your advantage. I'm not saying it's > great, but it's also not necessarily cheating if you aren't trying > avoid the punishment. > > I think it's a culture thing. If you play in the US or Canada, expect > the odd foul on stall 1 or 2 when it has less damaging an effect for > the D but has the advantage of stopping flow. Some teams just play > that way and that's a different cultural interpretation of how to play > the game. > > Steve > > > __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
