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Originally Posted by Dan_ref
Worth discussing: you don't need to be "guarding" to establish lgp.
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I'm going to disagree here.
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Originally Posted by RuleBook
4-23-2 To obtain an initial legal guarding position:
a. The guard must have both feet touching the playing court.
b. The front of the guard's torso must be facing the opponent.
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By virtue of the language used in this rule, I'd say it's impossible for for someone to establish LGP without gaurding. The bolded word(s) - "guard," is being used, instead of "player," and the word "guard" means, essentially, in this case, "one who is guarding."