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Originally Posted by FMadera
No. You're looking for trouble. The violation is not for deliberately moving, it's for deliberately interfering with the ball through the net.
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That's just not the case, according to the very rule you cited. The rule says:
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"15.2.1 Player Contact with Net or Antennas
Contact with the net by a player is not a fault, unless it is made during an
action of playing the ball, or it interferes with the play."...
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The rule says nothing about intent. The rule says it's not a fault unless the contact interferes with the play (assuming the attack hit was the team's first or second hit). Well, contacting the blocker through the net will certainly interfere with the ball. According to the very rule you've cited, this should be a net fault on the blocker.
The rule and the interpretation simply don't match up. We all know what the rule is
supposed to be. The problem is, that's not what the rule actually
is.
If you're going to call a fault on a player who "intentionally" sticks her hand out to the side and is contacted by the net, then you have to call a fault on the blocker who clearly "intentionally" jumps into the path of the attack hit and is contacted by the net.
You can't rule the same action two different ways based on the same rule. Believe me, I'm not looking for trouble and I'm NOT going to be calling this net fault on the blocker. But the rule should be re-written to accurately reflect how the play should be called.