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Originally Posted by tomegun
The clip I'm covering today has these elements:
Offensive foul in the backcourt - arm extended to the head area. Defender goes down.
Forearm totally stops dribbler
Passer fouled
L rotates, but T is back with player that went down
L is forced to call foul across the court because T didn't rotate to C
Fourth foul called and now official has to explain why player went down and there was no whistle.
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Honestly, I can only "agree" with half of these points from the video.
The clip doesn't show enough of the backcourt situation to show how they contact occurred. It may well be an offensive foul but I would never rule it as such based just on the short bit in the clip.
I don't see a forearm at all. I see the dribbler and the defender collide torso to torso with the defenders arm pinned between....at least from the angle/quality of this video. There could be a foul there, but the video doesn't really tell.
I see some body/body contact on the first passer after the pass is away. Fouled? Perhaps? But where is the advantage. Pass was successful and the contact appeared minor (but again, the video didn't really show the whole interaction to the end so it is hard to see) and not necessarily worth of a whistle (depending on the tone of the game to that point).