"I'm talking about the original post, where I player fakes, gets the defender airborne and then jumps and shoots."
"Shooter upfakes (good! it's about time someone learned how to play) and gets defender into the air. The Defender has leapt high and slightly forward, towards the shooter. The ***shooter *then* moves towards the defender***, insuring s/he will be crashed in to."
Although the wording *may* confuse some
I read the original post to say the shooter moves into and/or under the defender AFTER the defender jumped. IOW, if the shooter had stayed inside *his* vertical plane there would be no contact. I read this as a nearly stationary shooter prior
to the defender's jump.
>I'm not talking about a player who kicks his leg out.
Does it matter what body part (;-/) the shooter uses to draw contact?
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Originally posted by BktBallRef
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Originally posted by Joe
"From what I read, a airborne defender who contacts an offensive player outside of his vertical plane is blocking."
Again, using the Reggie Miller kick out move example
(because everyone has seen it a 100 times):
the defender IS outside his vertical plane and moving
towards Miller, but a foot or more off to his side. If Miller doesn't "kick out" there wouldn't be any contact. Are you saying even though Miller kicks (or lunges or jumps
or shoulder slams or whatever into the defender) this is a foul on the defender because:
A) he doesn't have LGP
and
B) he is outside of his vertical plane?
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I'm not talking about a player who kicks his leg out. I'm talking about the original post, where I player fakes, gets the defender airborne and then jumps and shoots.
Joe, get Reggie Miller off your brain, would ya? 
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