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A2 gains control of a defensive rebound down low in the paint and both teams begin to move towards the other goal while A2 attempts to dribble between B2 and the baseline. In my opinion A2 doesn't have the required room to dribble through this space (about a foot and a half between B2 and the OOB line) and B2 has both arms straight above his head while he is back peddling, facing A2 and moving in the same direction. Contact is initiated by A2 with his shoulder and side up against B2, as he tries to 'wiggle' between B2 and the baseline. He manages to squeeze through and begins moving to A's front court. B2 never had any obvious pushing or shoving motion towards A2 like he was trying to force him OOB's or anything either, just maintaining his moving position in relation to A2.
Now with me Trailing, B2 begins complaining about my non-call on the blocking foul.
In my mind A2 has a right to his defensive spot even though he was moving. B2 actually initiated the contact by dribbling into A2 as well as by not having enough room to be making this move to begin with. Plus I didn't see any advantage/disadvantage gained or lost which was caused by the opposing players to one another.
So in the end, I wasn't going to bail him out of his bad decision of driving to where there was no room for him and if anything, wouldn't this be a PC on A2? Isn't this the same concept as a ball handler trying to split two defenders without adequate room to do so while being trapped?
And oh yeah... did I mention it was a IM game?
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