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Originally Posted by VaTerp
Contact is after the shooter lands.
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This is a tough one, but if that's what you see, then fine, but it's not what I see. I see the defender's right hip making contact with the shooter before the shooter returns to the floor. It is also my opinion that the defender's knee makes contact with the shooter, also before the shooter returns to the floor, but this aspect of the play is much closer, and I may be mistaken. Bottom line: Contact before the shooter returns to the floor, but I don't have any problems with anybody seeing it differently, especially in real time.
One way, or another, that takes care of the "act of shooting" foul. Even if the shooter wasn't fouled in the act of shooting, he still got fouled before the ball hit out of bounds, and became dead. Illegal (not incidental) live ball contact, is a foul, even if it's not intentional, or flagrant, and should be called.
If the offensive player got knocked down in this manner while setting a screen, or going for a rebound, or diving to save a ball about to go out of bounds, or simply cutting across the lane, a foul would be called, so why not here?
Some less experienced officials might even consider a "hard" intentional foul here, but that's for another discussion.