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Originally posted by BktBallRef
There's nothing in the rules that says a player can't lower his shoulder, yet you hear coaches, players, and fans screaming it. If the defender hasn't established a legal guarded position, this is a block.
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The path of the ball handler is important here, I think.
With the defender running a bit ahead of the ball-handler and the ball-handler sharply turning into the defensive player, lowered shoulder, or not, and hitting the defender, who hadn't established legal guarding position, sometimes we have to call a player control foul.
mick