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Old Tue May 27, 2014, 08:27pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by Pantherdreams View Post
I'm not changing the play.

THe OP says the defender lands on the player with the ball. We added jumping/diving to the equation after putting the discussion for the POE in regards to loose ball on the table.

At no point in the jump/land conversation has how much of the player, which body parts, or in what order make contact upon landing. The argument presented was that if you jump and land on the player it should always be a foul.
Yes you are....you're now saying the player landed on the floor and touched the player who was already on the floor with the arms. That isn't landing ON the player. You can't land on the player and land on the floor at the same time. It is one or the other.
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