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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
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. |
Ya know, I looked and I looked and I looked again...but I cannot find a single time where I used the word automatically in this thread.
Until now.