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Old Sun Feb 26, 2017, 09:40pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by just another ref View Post
Look at the 36 second mark, when it zooms in. The ball is still in the hand of the shooter. The hand of the defender is past the ball. There is contact on the arm, followed by the contact on the torso. This is a foul.
OK, but if the ball was contacted first and the follow through involved some arm contact, in my world that is not a foul. That is expected on some level. And if there is some torso contact, then so be it as well. If he used all that arm contact and body contact to get the block, different story.

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