Ralph: “We talk a lot in this game about RSBQ, rhythm, speed, balance and quickness so I just want you to talk about your philosophies and how you perceive that particular acronym.”
Jug: “RSBQ are the things that are going on the basketball court. You have players that have quickness that is out of this world, their speed is outrageous, they got nice rhythm they got a good game, so you want to be able to officiate that correctly. Players that make some nice move, nor disadvantage to his balance we let that go if it knocks him over we have a foul. Rhythm, that is a player making moves dropping the drills there like going to the basket and he finally releases the ball and his rhythm is toned off by a player coming up the court and not being legal those are fouls. Speed, that guy that can get up on the court dribbling the ball and you can’t run and catch him, to then you run down there and run him over to try and catch the ball, those are fouls.”
Ralph: “So you only perceive that as if they are impeding a player or they are having a disadvantage. And what you say is that when there is marginal contact, and people perceive that on the stands, that doesn’t mean that that is a foul, but if they are getting disadvantage and now they are losing the ball because of it and now you see some egregious contact them you call it right?” Jig’s answer: “the player not being legal, and not becoming legal.”
Ralph: “Do you think that there has been some evolution with maybe of the advent of somebody playing like Kyrie Irwin who really has an off-balance game where he is kind of in balance but really off balance because he has worked on those off-balance moves, how do you think that you study every player and say “this guy has this particular package” and this is what he can do, this is what he can handle.”
Jug: “Definitely a pregame warmup with your partners, because you have to know how to treat and understand fouls, everyone’s play calling is not the same.”