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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
By the letter of the rule, this would be a blocking foul...there was plenty of displacement through body contact from a position that was no where near LGP Without it, LeBron wouldn't have been able to block the shot (or at least not nearly as easily).
However, in practice, when a player gets that much ball up top, we often ignore a lot of body contact that comes with it.
Not sure why we don't protect shooters who get their shot blocked, but we don't.
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On jump shooters we do. Jump shot, quick block, crash! We can't officiate that play like a punt in football.
Like you said there are less calls on plays to the rim. I think that is because he is going up with much more force and bracing for any contact. This is most likely why the contact is deemed incidental. Which I agree with in most plays.