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Originally posted by RecRef
There is more to this than just guarding position. Almost always a player with the ball can not initiate contact. Example B2 is defending A2 and has his back to A1. A1 drives for the lane and crashes into B2. It is a charge/PC foul on A1 as B2 is entitled to his space on the floor. Now if B2 would have moved away from A2 and into the path of A1, we have a block.
Also be careful of thinking guarding position means that B1 must be set. B1 must HAVE HAD both feet on the floor. Example B1 after having both feet on the floor when guarding A1 starts to backpedal. A1 picks up the speed of his dribble and moves into B1 while B1 has one foot in the air. Charge on A1.
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Legal guarding position is to be used in the case of torso
to torso contact between the player with the ball and an
opponent. It requires 2 things initially: 2 feet on the
floor (as you said) and the defender to be facing the
opponent player. I'm not sure I have a PC in the first
play you posted, there is such a thing as incidental
contact. In any event, it almost always turns out in this
situation that the secondary defender B2 has in fact turned
and moved into airborne A1. So in this play I almost always
have a block or a no-call.