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Originally Posted by walter
1)Think of this. Hard, fast drive to the basket from the wing by A1 (small guard). B1 (big body center) comes straight down the lane line toward the endline on the same side and jumps to block the shot. B1 legally beats A1 to the basket and while in the air cleanly blocks the ball and the two bodies come together and A1 ends up falling to the floor and the ball goes straight out of bounds. You have two bodies, basically getting to the same spot at practically the same time, contact which can be hard given the speed, and the ball going out of bounds. To me this is a no call even with possibly severe contact.
2) Another is drive by A1 one to the basket at B1. B1 jumps up vertically and blocks the ball and is contacted by A1 (also airborne) with such force that B1 is bent over the top of A1 and A1 ends up on the ground. To me, this is either a no call or possibly a player control foul on A1 even though A1 got the brunt of the contact.
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1) To me that's foul on B1. They're not playing football out there. You've got a defender that never came close to having LGP running over a shooter. Whether the defender got the ball or not while doing so is completely irrelevant by rule. And if there was severe contact, I'd think about maybe calling an intentional or flagrant foul also. If B1 really had beat A1 to the basket, then you wouldn't have 2 bodies getting to the same spot at the same time.
2) And this call depends on whether the defender had a LGP too. If so, I agree. HTBT.