Dazz
Years ago
Bring Back the Jump Ball
At the start of the last quarter in the Cats v Hawks, the refs had everyone lining up at the wrong end. ~8000 people are yelling WTF, and finally somebody went and checked with the officials and after some debate it was sorted.
But seriously, there are only quarters, with no jump-balls called, how hard is it to keep track?
I never understood why they got rid of the jump-ball?
It also creates a lot of confusion (and crowd anger) when a contested possession results in a JB call, and effectively turns over possession.
It's another gripe I have with the reffing: Reach in and simply make contact, and its called a foul. But reach in, make contact, wrestle the player to the floor, and its called a Jump-Ball.
Back in the day, legitimate jump-ball calls were rare, but now they just seem to see it as an easy solution.
The problem is that they think it's an unbiased call, but often its not. If in the frantic final minutes you make the one and only JB call for the night, you've just handed one team a free possession.
