I understand incidental contact, and how some types of contact are used to gain an advantage, or put their opponent at a disadvantage. However, I know that developing judgement about what contact is incidental and what is illegal take time. As such, I am leaning a lot on what I hear from other officials and this forum! Officials I work with call fouls on this very type of contact I posted on, which demonstrates to me that it is not incidental.

However, you gentlemen have explained exactly what makes this contact incidental, which overturns my previous thought about any contact on a jump-shooter being a foul.

So, while I may understand the principles of the advantage/disadvantage philosophy, I am not able to implement it yet. That is what I mean, and that is what I think you were trying to point out. I understand the why of officiating principles, I don't fully understand the how just yet.