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Originally Posted by johnny d
Moving backwards and leaning backwards are two different things. QUOTE]
I don't think they are in this context.
If the player had established LGP but leaned forward outside their LGP to initate contact with a shooter we would argue he moved into the shooter.
If they player in LGP wishes to lean backward to protect themselves or to move away from the contact they should get the same application of "move".
It doesn't make sense to say" You can't move into the shooter, so no leaning forward because you are moving into them but also say, you can move backwards but no leaning away from them because leaning is not moving.
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I *suspect* that the reasoning is something along the lines of the following: Starting to fall back is faking a foul before it happens and makes refs look bad. So we're going to punish that faking by saying once you start faking it, you're no longer in LGP because you aren't guarding any more you're just trying to make me look bad.