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Old Thu Mar 10, 2011, 03:28pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap View Post
+1 Offensive player initiated the contact. And once that happened, to call something on the defender who had LGP would be wrong. It really is not different from a foul cannot cause a violation.
Only if you judge that the contact by the shooter caused the defender to give up the vertical position. The defender doesn't have the right to collapse on the shooter just because there was legal contact.
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