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Originally Posted by SmokeEater
I agree it's a no call, but I hate the excuse that he "bailed out to avoid significant contact". Not that your wrong that he did back up a bit but he is allowed to do so to protect himself from possible injury. Obviously we don't need to have "significant" contact for a foul to occur. The defender was in position and the offense clearly hit him. I would have been Ok seeing PC or No call on this.
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The point is that by backing out, the defender actually reduced the contact from what would have been a foul to incidental.
Yes, a defender is allowed to back up, but if in doing so he drastically reduces contact, then he may well actually avoid taking the charge in doing so. We don't call fouls based on what would have happened.
It's just like when a defender starts leaning backwards to brace for contact. Yes, he can do it, but when he does, then we have to judge whether he was knocked down or if he fell down on his own.