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Originally Posted by deecee
so if the defender didn't have a chance at making a play on the ball and the offensive player who just lost position barrels into him because lets say he tripped over his own feet you would call an intentional? I just don't see why the ball has to be involved for inadvertent contact or not.
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Not intentioal....possibly NOTHING at all. Contact that creates an advantage or is "too" rough is a foul. Just because a player gets knocked down doesn't mean either occurred.
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A1, with a backcourt throwin, passes ball to A2. The ball sails over A2's head. A2, in trying to get to the ball stumbles, falls to the floor, and rolls into B2's legs....taking them out from under B2 and B2 falls as a result. The ball went to the area of A4 and B4 and was 30' from B2, who was making no attempt to go with the ball.....he was staying with A2. I'll have no foul.