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Originally Posted by Old School
The NBA which I have studied, doesn't approach the game the way NFHS does.
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Watching a lot of NBA games, and even charting things from a spectator's view (which is the only one any of us on this forum can have) isn't the same as "studying". To really understand the NBA, you'd have to actually hear from them why and why not they call and don't call things.
The reasons they don't do things the same as the NFHS have little or nothing to do with the sizes of the players, and especially not with "protectiing" the big players or little players. The move that "Steve" didn't do again was illegal not because it "threatened" the big player, but because he didn't establish his position legally. The definition of legal position is different in the NBA and the NFHS, but the principle of legal position is the same -- and it isn't based on who's going to get hurt.