I think I was mis understood in my references to "shoulder width." Mayybe I just have huge shoulders. Regardless, if the foot is significantly outside the "cone of verticality" and especially if that foot gets to the sideline before the body, as coachz describes, so that the dribbler's contact will be with the leg or foot and not the body, then it's not legal defense, regardless of the measurement of the width. I just lcan't see that requiring the defender to keep his feet off the line is all that significant.
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