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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
Once, when I called it, the coach of the offending player told me to get the other team off his player. I ignored him in spite of my urge to ask him how he expected me to word the request to get the other team to stop playing legal defense.
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The coach may not understand the sublety involved. It is illegal to swing elbows, even without making contact, while some amount of contact by the defense
is permitted in the normal course of play.
I think though that he was trying to tell you his player was swinging his elbows because he was being hammered. Coaches tend to see things simply. "If my player is touched, it's a foul."
Maybe the defense had a forearm on him.