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Old Wed Nov 10, 2004, 05:53pm
cmathews cmathews is offline
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Re: Re: What is right about a player being OOB

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Originally posted by coachz_216
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Originally posted by cmathews
What is right about a player being OOB and being able to maintain legal guarding position?? If an offensive player goes out of bounds to avoid traffic it is a T. Granted this is because they usually do it on purpose, and the defensive player concentrating on the offense won't know exactly when they are OOB. As for an earlier statement that the player takes up more space on defense, having your legs splayed out and that is where the contact occurs is a blocking foul as well, actually close to tripping. I can see absolutely no logical reason to allow the defense to maintain legal guarding position while OOB. As for waiting until the defense is on the line then lowering a shoulder, that to me is an intentional foul, maybe a T. In all honesty in the past if the defense is on the line, and the offense knew it, the smart play would be to hand the defender the ball and he is out of bounds, yep sounds like a highly intelligent defensive ploy to me....
This means that their stance is wider (laterally) than an offensive player (if you choose to ignore this reality, then I'm not sure if you can understand the rest of this).

was that really necessary coachz?? I didn't ignore any reality, but the only thing that makes them wider is their legs and feet. If that is the only thing that contacts an offensive player and there is a foul called, it will be a block. It is the torso contact that gets you a charge not the legs and feet. You need to spend some more time in the book though, because if there isn't enough "space" for the offensive player to go through they are responsible for the contact.

and you guys should be proud of VP Cheney, because as he so eloquently pointed out he once again delivered the state of Wyoming to the Bush-Cheney ticket LOL
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