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Originally posted by mplagrow
Glad I was working the table and not officiating this one. A1 is going for the drive from the elbow. B1 is standing in LGP at the block, ready to take the charge. A1 looks like he's going to drive through and everyone cringes for the train wreck. At the last second, A1 tries to pull up and shoot over the top. However, he loses control of the ball as he jumps. His hands go up for the shot with no ball. The ball gets trapped between A1's stomach and B1's chest. A1's momentum pushes the ball into B1, who falls backward. A1 falls on top of him with the ball still inbetween.
It looked terrible. It looked like A1 clobbered B1, but from the side it was pretty clear that the loose ball was a buffer between the two for pretty much the whole play. The ref had nothing. Finally, A1 grabbed the ball and rolled over, and it ended with a travel call.
Does anyone call an offensive foul on this? Obviously the whole gym was screaming for it, but A1 was not in control of the ball, which was pinned between the players as they went down.
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If I understand your description rightly, A1 did not shoot the ball. Therefore Team A retained control and, if it was a common foul, it was a team control foul.
It's hard to believe that absolutely no part of A1 touched B1 during the entire crash . . . it there was ANY contact, that could make the matter of the interposition of the ball moot.
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might argue that B1 did not give an opponent-without-the-ball room to stop (time and distance), but A1 was a player-with-the-ball when B1 took a position, so . . . not a good argument, in my view.