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Originally Posted by Dan_ref
Because the OP didn't say he had LGP, he just said B1 & A1 was running side by side. Just using the facts at hand.
Even if he HAD said B1 established LGP the way I envision this play is that A1 at some point had head & shoulders past B1.
Even if he HAD said B1 maintained LGP the way I envision this play B1 moved into A1.
So the only way B1 had LGP during the contact was that B1 established it, he didn't let A1 get head & shoulders past him & B1 did not move into A1 to initiate contact.
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So what?
The dribbler getting his head and shoulders past a defender doesn't
automatically(99%) mean that the foul is on the defender, does it?
The pertinent rule- NFHS 10-6-2 says
"If a dribbler, without contact, sufficiently passes an opponent to have head and shoulders in advance of that opponent, the greater responsibility for subsequent contact is on the opponent.". The rule says "greater responsibility"; it
doesn't say "total responsibility". That's why I think that it's not an
automatic foul on the defender and you have to judge each play on it's own merits.