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Originally posted by Nevadaref
Quote:
Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
Rule 4-45-VERTICALITY
Verticality applies to a legal position.The basic components of the principle of verticality are:
ART 2: The defender may not "belly up" or use the lower part of the body to cause contact outside his/her vertical plane which is a foul.
Also, from the POE's in the 2003-04 rule book:
A player has the right to any spot on the floor he or she may get to legally. To obtain or maintain a legal rebounding position, a player may not:
- extend shoulders, hips or knees, or extend the arms or elbows fully or partially in in a position other than vertical, so that the opponent's freedom of movement is hindered when contact with the arm or elbows occur.
- bend his or her body into an abnormal position to hold or displace an opponent.
- violate the principle of verticality.
- better his or her position by other than legal means.
The same principles apply to a player with the ball and the defender guarding him/her. Both players are bound equally by these principles.
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So which of these principles did the defender break?
1. Did he use his belly or lower body to cause contact?
3. Did he extend his arms, elbows, or knees in a non vertical position and contact the opponent?
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1) Yes. He used his lower body to
cause the contact by being inside A1's vertical plane when A1 moved
within his vertical plane.
2) Yup. B1 extended his knee, and accompanying leg, into A1's vertical space and used that position to both "hinder" and "hold" A1 from performing legal movements allowable by rule and occuring totally within A1's vertical space.
That's the way it sounds like to me from Damian's description, anywhoooo....it
could be a foul on B1.
Btw, B1 filled A1's legally attained spot on the floor in the
air over that spot, not on the floor. That's no different than B1 holding his arms over top of A1's head, and A1 then jumping straight up into those arms. B1 was still within A1's vertical plane, the way I read the description.