[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally posted by rainmaker
Mark T D'N:

Thank you for this excellent explanation. It hits exactly on my confusion, and makes the situation much more clear. I think you are saying that the best thing for the Offensive player to do, is to step forward into the contact so that the defender has committed a foul and can't gain the ball. This is how I have called this contact in the past, but I didn't realize that the "swimming" was the first illegal move.

Extrapolating a little, if a dribbler is driving down the lane, and a defender puts an arm out horizontally, we call a block if the dribbler runs through the arm, but if the dribbler puts up his off hand and pushes the defender's arm out of the way, is it now PC?

Yes.