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Originally posted by Eric Huechteman
Also, Rule 4-27-3: "Similarly, contact which does not hinder the opponent from participating in normal defensive or offensive movements should be considered incidental."
Compare that with: "If the defender is crowding the player with the ball, making it hard to move, that's what I call good defense."
Pivoting is a normal offensive movement, and "crowding the player with the ball" hinders that movement.
[Edited by Eric Huechteman on Apr 20th, 2004 at 01:57 AM]
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Crowding doesn't mean contact. It means getting so close that the offense has no room to move. If there is contact that has an effect on the play, then it's not crowding, it's pushing.
The definition of defense is to hinder the offenses movement. They are only restricted to doing it without creating contact...not by being required to give the offense room to move.