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Originally posted by MCBear
Good-oh! Right on, Felix.
Finally, we don't have to worry about whether the player is attempting to make a save on the overpass. If the ball is in the plane of the net and the opponent hits or blocks the ball back into a back-row player whose hands are above the net, we have a back-row block. Hooray!!!! Our lives were just made easier!!!
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Wait a minute here!? Could we clarify what really consitutes a block, period? I understood that back row players are not allowed to make a block or block attempt regardless. Back row player attempting to save an overpass with a block/block attempt shouldn't even be contested in the first place. Blocking actions by front row players are judge to be somewhere close to the net or vicinity of the hit whether the player jumps or not, are they not? Therefore any back row players, penetrating the front zone making a block/block attempt of the sort would be a violation, regardless whether or not the hands are above the net or not.
A slightly different scenario:
So the point I'm getting to, is that if a libero penetrates into the front zone, and uses a blocking action to play up the ball as a first contact. To clarify that the libero is not anywhere near the net nor in close vicinity of the hit, becuase of the
tip coverage postition, and keeps the ball on the team's side. Let's say that the hands of the libero is above the height of the net, and there was no other block/block attempts by any front row players.
Is the libero guilty of block/block attempt?