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It's a foul. In THIS situation, the displacement excuse is a copout.
That kind of a bump puts the player at a disadvantage, especially if the player behind is using that bump to push off or if that bump keeps the inside player from getting position.
I'll admit -- occasionally we try to avoid calling cheap fouls and it backfires. Last night I had a bump from behind on a rebound that cleared -- or so I thought. Instead it EVENTUALLY caused the player with the ball to travel. Wasn't an "obvious to the back row" travel, but it WAS a travel. I called nothing although the RIGHT call would be a foul on the bump that caused this to happen. Just seemed a bit late and I didn't want to penalize the girl for getting fouled, so I left it go.
The coach of the "bumping" player wanted the travel and I had to come clean and tell him about the foul we passed on. He knew that there was a foul, too, but since we didn't call it he fished for the travel.
--Rich
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