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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
Mark
You can make any of those foul calls in the travel/OOB scenarios. But you can also rule otherwise.
Rule 4
SECTION 19 FOUL
ART. 1 . . . A personal foul is a player foul which involves illegal contact with an opponent while the ball is live, which hinders an opponent from performing normal defensive and offensive movements. A personal foul also includes contact by or on an airborne shooter when the ball is dead.
A1's contact with B1 hindered A1's ability to make normal offensive movements and caused A1 to travel/lose the ball OOB. If B1 doesn't suffer from this contact, does it need to be a foul?
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Hawks Coach:
I think that you do not understanding what NFHS R4-S19-A1 is saying about hindering an opponent from performing normal defensive and offensive movements.
B1 had a legal guarding position on the court, this implies that he/she also had a legal position on the court. A1 initiated contact with B1 that hindered B1 from making normal defensive movements. The fact that A1's contact with B1 caused A1 fall or have any number of bad things to him/her does not matter. A1's contact with B1 was the illegal contact.
If B1 had moved in a manner that did not follow the guide lines set forth in the rules, then B1 would be guilty of a foul because B1's contact with A1 hindered A1 from making normal offensive movements.
MTD, Sr.