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Old Wed Feb 20, 2008, 12:31pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by BoomerSooner
You are right that you could ignore it if the defense was trying to commit disconcertion, but this is not the case in the OP. What is going on in this case is a lane violation (Breaking the plane of the lane with a foot prior to the release of the shot), which is not ignorable. Disconcertion involves the subjective judgement of the official, a line violation, however is pretty objective.
Everything is ignorable. You just don't blow the whistle. It may not alway be advisable, but you can chose to ignore anything.
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