Understanding Cylinder Plays in Officiating

In our mechanics, this is the Trails primary area of coverage because he has above the three point line in the corner. The Trail calls an offensive foul on White #4 for making illegal contact to Gold #0, and the crew decided to go to the monitor for a potential Flagrant foul or a cylinder foul. Remember, that plays involving the cylinder and hook and holds are ones we can basically re-referee at the monitor. On this play we have several options, we can uphold the call on the floor of an offensive foul. We can determine that Gold #0 invaded White #4 cylinder, so we could take away the offensive foul and put a defensive foul Gold #0. If Gold #0 was in White #4 cylinder, but White #4 makes unnecessary and excessive contact to the defender, we can put a double foul on the play, with one being a Flagrant foul. If at the monitor, we see that there is no contact on the play, we can take away the common foul and award the ball to the offense. It’s extremely important to understand all the scenarios and know what we can and can’t do with these cylinder plays.