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Just for clarification, his hands and arms were, "reach(ing) for the sky", and the contact happened about 10ft out from the rim with no shot attempt. It was absolutely a charge. My player is a top player in the league. He's a 6'1", 160lb, athletic, 8th grader that can shoot and dribble, regularly scores 20+ and sometimes 30 a game, but he's very physical. He's often close to fouling out and many times does, and has a rep. He becomes a target for some coaches' strategies, and rightly so. But a cheap foul in this case.
I've been working with him to polish his game and clean-up his D. He now understands what's good defense and has improved a lot. The call was very disappointing from this standpoint. I know he played it perfect, but he gets a bad rap. Hardly ever gets calls his way. Defensive players who foul him usually just bounce off. Not much change in his body position. But this is more a subject for a coaches' forum.
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