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Originally posted by Illini_Ref
I don't think we're seeing the paly develop the same way.
I am seeing the dribbler drive to the bucket from say the elbow. The defender somes across to help, but cannot get faced up. The defender gets to the spot first and is stationary, but doesn't have initial guarding position because he is not faced up. If htere is contact, is it a block or a charge. Ususally this is called a block, but I'm not sure.
If everyone is entitled to a spot on the floor, then why all this talk of initial guarding position?
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I see your point. You say it means knowing "why" the defender is there, I say it's just realizing if he was there or not legally based on the case. OK. In the play as you have written it here I've got a block because you're saying he did not establish LGP - he met one of 2 conditions. In the other case the defender established LGP, he met both conditions by jumping into the path and getting both feet down & facing. Now, in the case where B2 is minding his own business following A2 across the lane I have a block by the dribbler A1 because A1 violated screening principles.