If you're playing against people that call charges during a pick-up game, you're playing in the wrong place. Plus if he starts calling charges (which is ridiculous) You might as well start calling, moving picks, 5 seconds, defensive 3 seconds and over the back. Only calls that should be called during a pickup game are defensive fouls, travels, carry, double dribble, and out of bounds. Maybe Goal tending, maybe. everything else is silly. I would get that knee checked out just to be safe. I hyper extended my knee too but it didn't hurt but swelled up and felt a lot of tightness. I could still play on it and would loosen up when I played but when it cooled down more tightness. Didn't go to the doctor but i ended up just not going to the court for 2 weeks and it was fine after.
"Charge" isn't the right word here. That dude basically tried to kill you. If somebody is standing in your way and you run smooth ass over them, it's a foul. If somebody jumps in front of you at the last minute after you've left your feet, you break their kneecaps.
Exactly. (Nothing worse than a guy just plowing over everyone with the shoulder/elbow) Undercuts=ass kicking
I think it depends on the court. I used to play with a group of people and we would call charges, that said the charge would have to be glaringly obvious. Anyway among people you haven't played before if I could get position and plant my feet in front of an out of control drive I would just see what happened if the rest of the people called it a foul then I knew they played with charges if not then I would just go with it. I agree trying to draw charges all the time is a bad idea and a way to get injured but charges are part of the game and make the game better. A game where guys just throw their bodies at the basket not caring who they run over in the process is just as dangerous as trying to jump infront of somebody to draw a charge.
That's what I'm saying. It might not be a charge in the traditional sense, but it is a foul and there are rules in pick up ball.
I've taken a charge before. I guess my acting was done very well. There was minimal contact as to not harming me nor the offense dude. Everyone asked if I was OK and the dude even apologized LOL. I got the ball. I'm not super competitive, at all, in pick up games though. I take charges occasionally for no real reason. Not gonna sacrifice my or anyone else's health for it though. It's just for fun.
I think an offensive foul can be appropriate call under the right circumstances in a pick-up game. Especially if it is something obvious like pushing with the off-hand, etc. That being said, trying to step in front of a guy is just stupid. If you really suck that bad, get off the ****in court.
b**** move on that guys part. There is no need to try to draw a charge in a pick up game. You can simply just challenge someone driving to the basket. This kind of reminds me of this one guy that kept calling moving picks at LA fitness one time lol
Just start farting a lot while you're on the court. Then they know if they jostle you too hard that there's a good chance you'll release a green cloud of horrendous buttgas.
Get that knee checked out...especially if it buckles like that, not good. I agree that certain charges are fine, but only when you have established your position and hold it to prevent someone from getting a layup. Stepping in and "waiting for it" is too difficult to call and i dont see the point. I dislocated my ankle once when this guy pulled a Bowen and stood right under me. Play with guys at your talent level or better instead.
Drawing charges is fair game, I do it all the time, and when someone complains to me about it I'll call a technical and shoot free throws.
Me too; I was waiting to get in a game at my university gym tonight, one of the players in the game actually called a charge and they gave her team the ball . Charges in pickup = BS What ever happened to Slippery Eel-type clothesline fouls?
In a sense, aren't 'drawing charges' = offensive fouls? I know technically that's true, but like whenever I play pickup basketball, if it's a really obviously offensive foul, we'd call it, but if somebody tries to deliberately draw a charge, nobody would care. Does that make any sense?
never played anywhere that actually respected charge calls, people know it's not worth risking the injury to them or the other, athletic or not
This. I have this dude in my area that is unathletic, wears a headband, is heavily aggressive when playin pickup, makin tons of steal attempts on the ball handler and basically playin like one of these annoyin kids you meet in video games. Pickup is a men's game, dudes who try to grab you every 2sec, are white, unathletic and wear headbands shouldn't be allowed to play. For real, this combination is deadly, all people I met that meet the criteria annoy the hell out of me and have no fundamentals yet try all kinds of shady ish to win, demand fouls and yell like Bs the whole time.
I hate it when old people try to join my pickup games and just hog the ball. Like seriously? Dude you're forty... you can't run with us. Especially when its one of those "hustle players". Annoying as hell.
