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Originally Posted by bob jenkins
Verticality doesn't really apply (if the hands go forward and make contact, it's a illegal use of hands foul, not a block). The defender can lean backwards.
If the defender leans to the side (and there's contact), then it's a block -- so maybe you can consider that verticality -- I think of it as "outside the frame"
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Just to clarify...if they lean to the side such that it causes contact that wouldn't have otherwise occurred (or causes more contact) then it is a block...and that is the case on most leans. However, leaning by itself isn't necessarily a problem. It could be a lean such that the defender was going to get crushed either way and it could still be a charge.