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Originally Posted by Eastshire
1. The shooter creates a dangerous situation so let's reward it by calling a foul on the defender who did nothing wrong? Wow.
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I asked for opinions based on the dangerous aspect of the play. I was not advocating a block or charge call. BTW... the shooter was just shooting, how did he "create" the situation? Should shooting while moving forward be deemed illegal?
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Originally Posted by Pantherdreams
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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Sounds to me the defender leaning forward is not illegal for moving
closer to the shooter, but is illegal for moving out of his verticality... the same no matter which direction he leaned. If I call a defender for a "hacking" foul for having his hands/arms up and out, instead of straight up, it's not because he moved towards the shooter, it's because his arms were not vertical.
The point I was making, and what has been skipped here, is that it's a dangerous play and something should be done to discourage it. The shooter did not create the dangerous part of the play, the defender did... hence the blocking call.