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Old Thu Jul 02, 2009, 10:33am
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by ILMalti View Post
The rule does not state direction ie on a drive to the basket. The rule states :

A closely guarded count shall be terminated when the offensive player in control of the ball gets his/her head and shoulder past the defensive player." Nothing about direction or PATH or any other words
How do you define getting the head/shoulder past the defender then? Your interpratation breaks down with this citation. Path is implied otherwise there would be no point to the rule...."past the defensive player" relative to what?
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Originally Posted by ILMalti View Post

Also once as Situation 9.10.1.C says once LGP has been established, movemnet does not matter, so the count starts the second offensive is facing defender who has his/her 2 feet planted, ans is within the 6 foot circle. They could dance and go any direction the count continues as long as the offensive player and defender remain with 6 feet and the LGP requirement spelt out in 9.10.1C has been initially obtained. (will not talk about defender 2 taking over)

Please see previous thread
Except that the rule you just cited says that the count shall stop....and it doesn't say anything about losing LGP.
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