Mr. Rutledge:
"Again, I will be damned if I call a foul on a dribbler that is being followed closely from behind and stops, then gets run over by that defender, then I turn around and call a foul on the dribbler. I am not going to make that call, just like I am not going to call a multiple foul on two defenders that make contact on a shooter at the same time. I do not think that either is good common sense officiating. If you do, so be it. The defender should not put himself in that situation to begin with. But that is my opinion."
The point is exactly that, if B1 is directly behind A1 and THE 2 ARE GOING IN THE SAME DIRECTION, then contact is a foul on B1. The issue is when, as EXACTLY happened in the game I cited, A1, dribbling, cuts off B1, moving in a different direction, then the foul is on A1. And they shoulda called it - put some integrity back in this moron game. Kansas played with all the intellect of a mollusk.
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