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If you go by the written rule....
...in the path (clearly since the shooter was able to cut back to the inside of the defender and make contact on the defender's left side)....
...2 feet on the floor.....yep, when the shooter was a step away.
...facing the opponent....yep, same time the feet were down (perhaps not perfectly square, but is that required?)
...before the opponent is airborne....yep, that happened as they came together
...LGP obtained.
However, I've heard it taught many times by NCAA clinicians that the point of reference they use is the gather. There is nothing in the rules that actually supports that, but that is what is used.
Also, I've heard it taught that is should be called a block if they don't take in the chest (and this defender didn't). But, that doesn't make any sense either if it is because the shooter slipped to the side of an otherwise legal position. That is the shooter's problem.
As the rules written, I think it was not a block. As the game is commonly called, it was a block.
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