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Old Wed Apr 11, 2012, 12:32pm
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Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer View Post
Well you're wrong on the first play. This is a blocking foul and this is an easy call under NBA rules (and is pretty damn close under NFHS/NCAA rules). A defender must allow a player who receives a pass outside the lower defensive box the opportunity to land and stop and/or change direction. The defender in the above play did not do that thus, he did not have a legal position.
Good to learn! Thanks.

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Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer View Post
I never said it wasn't a charge under NF/NCAA rules...I just said it was close...especially since people here were applying NFHS/NCAA rules to that play and thinking it was an obvious charge even by their "NBE" standards. And I meant to say lower defensive box rather than block...got ahead of myself.
My "NBE standards" applied to the travel clip, not to the B/C clip. Perhaps my punctuation was in error.
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