A charge is a violation... if there is no call there is no violation. So if there is no call then there is no charge... someone has to call it. So he is standing in front of a guy and falling down... that isn't taking a charge if he isn't calling it.
35 charges in one game is a lot... would have to be an nba record.
Nobody's falling down in pickup ball, and you aren't getting that call. However, cutting off the driver and taking tough contact is a legit pickup move as you generally aren't playing with ultra speedy or shifty dudes. Take the contact. If you do it a couple of times the guy will evidence frustration. You probably wouldn't play that way with your buddies though.
If he didn't foul out after 6, I could see a possibility of Clarkson getting 35 calls the other way. . .
Taking a charge means stopping a guy with the ball. If you find that amusing, ...
"No call"? What sort of wimpy pick-up ball do you play? On our play ground back in the middle ages, it was "no blood, no foul" (a slight exaggeration). That's some kind of weird nominalism you have going on. Would you also say, "It's not a double dribble unless someone calls it" or "It's not a travel unless someone calls it"? How about if the ball goes through the hoop, but the score doesn't get incremented? Is it a missed shot unless the score goes up?
That's just holding your ground and playing good defense... when I hear taking a charge I think of it in the NBA sense... taking contact, falling over, and calling a foul.
Stopping the ball is stopping the ball. If I am playing with my friends and shut a guy down they don't say "way to take that charge". Every time someone cuts off a drive that's "taking a charge"... GTFO.
It's true that it's only a charge if you're stationary and the guy on offense is driving to the basket and drives into you, while there are other actions that count as "stopping the ball".
Sorry, I'm too old and too fat now, not to mention in Illinois.
So, since Ilyasova has never called a foul, he's never taken a charge?
