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Originally posted by Snaqwells
Camron,
Contact (other than fighting, Lotto) cannot be penalized on the player who owns the air space in which it happens. If he's not completely vertical, then we're talking about international air space and verticality privileges no longer apply.
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Contact, in general, is a foul on the person that causes the contact (the one moving) unless there are overriding rules. Contact with and extended limb, in general, is a foul on the person who extends the limb.
There is an exception for a player hitting the hand of an opponent when that hand is on the ball.
The verticality rule grants an exception to a defender that allows them to raise their arms and perhaps cause contact while raising them. The verticality rule exempts arms that are in a raised position above the body from being liable for a foul.
The verticality rule does not permit any other contact such as might be had when the arms are swept side to side as in a football stop the clock signal.
The verticality rule doesn't grant the defender ownership of that space, only extended priviledges. I don't see anything that gives them freedom to knock an opponents arms out of that space unless it is through the raising of the arms.