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Old Fri Nov 25, 2011, 02:35pm
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Originally Posted by Snaqwells View Post
Read it more carefully. He's talking about a play where the defender jumps forward, towards the shooter.
Even if the defender does jump forward, toward a stationary shooter, if the defender would have landed short of contact, the shooter is not allowed to jump into the defender. In reality, the shooter will get a lot of benefit of the doubt. One cannot always say with certainty who would have landed where.
But here, it was a given, the defender would have landed without contact, the shooter jumped into the defender and some have said the foul is still on the defender.
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