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Originally posted by BktBallRef
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Originally posted by Lotto
My point exactly. My reading of some of the opinions expressed above was that any contact that occurs in the vertical space above B1 cannot result in a foul called on B1.
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No one else indicated any such thing.
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In fact, they did. Explicitly. Here's a quote from an earlier post:
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If there is contact after a player reaches over a short player, and that contact occurs in the vertical space above the short player, then- by rule- the illegal contact is always called on the player going "over the back".
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In the situation I described, a player reaches (with his body) over a short player, and contact occured in the vertical space above the short player. The above statement says the foul should be on the taller player.
My only point is that the principle of verticality does not absolutely absolve B1 from responsibility for contact in the vertical plane.