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Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
mark
Good points. What I don't understand is why anyone at a high of a level needs to touch the other player to "measure up?" Of coursethe other side is, the higher the level, the more contact is required before a highly skilled player is disadvantaged.
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Why is it that the best players in the world get to make illegal contact to play the game. It seems to me that the better the player the less illegal contact so be required of them to play the game. Just a wild and wacky concept that I must be the only one has ever thought of.
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One reason is that all players are faster and more powerful. Players will approach each other with greater strength and speed, and therefore the level of contact is greater in general throughout the game. And it is not conact that you can say is due to one player or another frequently. Now the reaching out and touching someone contact is not explainable by this speed and power concept, but I guess the general mindset is that much greater levels of contact are clearly incidental, so don't blow the whistle on a touch foul.