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Originally posted by BktBallRef
Yes, I would have a foul. You're not using the jersey to push me. You're using your hand. The foul doesn't have to be "skin to skin" as you stated earlier. If you stick the ball in my chest, I'm simply going to grab it.
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If someone plays great position defense; they do everything right in the official's eyes; you want to punish that player when they jump vertically, arms vertical, by letting a shooter push them away with the ball in order to get off a shot.
I can't give you a definitive example in a Case; nor can you give me a Case that excludes non-body contact from being called a contact foul. If ruling non-body contact as a foul isn't disallowed, then I believe calling it as a personal foul is allowed.