Played a couple game of pick up ball tonight, and one of the players on the other team was one of those "overly competitive un-athletic guys". Basically a slow, kind of out of shape dude who reaches and grabs on defense, goes over the back on every O-rebound and misses a bunch of point blank layups. And calls touch fouls. But whatever, it's just pick up and I wasn't guarding him, so not a big deal. About midway through the second game though, as I'm driving to the basket he slides over late to draw a charge (?!). We both go down and I end up hyperextending the hell out my knee. Two things: 1) Who the **** tries to draw charges in pick up basketball? Is this normal behavior? 2) Should I get the knee checked out? It swelled up like a MFer when I got home, and it buckles when I try to put my full weight on it. Right now I'm just RICE-ing it.
I honestly don't get what the pay-off is, you're really going to sacrifice your body (not to mention the other guy ) to get the possession back? In pick-up?
In all my days of playing pickup ball since childhood, I have never seen anyone try to draw a charge in a game.
The key is to teach them a lesson. Make them remember the time they tried to draw a charge. Elbows up will do the trick.
A couple of months ago I was playing a pick up game on campus and I was in the lane (I'm about 6' 180lbs) and a large native american man came barreling into me (at least 250lbs), since I couldn't get out of the way, I went into the p***y-like charge position (not intending to call a charge, but certainly would not be a defensive foul on my part) and he falls down and then tries to call a foul on me... I would say that drawing a charge is more fair than charging into someone and calling a foul on the defender
I wasn't out of control. I pumped my defender in the air from the wing, then drove with the intention of passing to the corner or dumping it off to my guy on the left block. Neither defender came to help, so I went in for a layup, and at the last second he undercut me without challenging the shot.
That is just dirty... Not sure that goes under the "drawing a charge" file... More like, whoop that dude's b****-made punk ass, file...
Charges happen in pickup. You can't just be a bull in a china closet, but I agree that someone shouldn't just stand there and try to draw one intentionally but if you do plow over someone, calling a foul is justified.
Anyone trying to take a charge in a pickup game would be laughed off the court. Also, anyone who drive in hard to the lane during said pick up game and (obviously) gets body bumped and calls a foul is a b****. It's just how it is.
Exactly. There are no charges in pickup basketball, it's an unwritten rule that everyone should be adhereing to. Charges are such a tough call to make regardless that they should only happen in an environment where there's an unbiased third party making the call. So to answer the OP, you have every right to get upset about a guy trying to take a charge. In the situation you described he should contest the shot like a man. Also if the swelling doesn't go away immediately with icing then I would definitely get it checked out, but ofc I am no doctor so maybe you are fine.
