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Originally Posted by johnny d
Please stop including this nonsense about protecting oneself against injury, concussions, etc. in your posts. Contact, both legal and illegal, occurs in basketball on every play. If a player or his parents are that concerned about injuries of any type than they should stop playing contact sports. The practice of ducking or turning away from imminent contact on these plays is going to have no significant impact on the likelihood that any particular player suffers an injury.
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If someone wants to discuss the impact on the play being dangerous the identifying dangers seems logical.
Not sure what what the impact of research has been in your areas but in our neck of the woods coaches must now have levels of training in first aid, concussion protocols, are required to coach techniques that reduce risk of injuryetc. They must also track and ensure that players have had sufficient practice time or recovery time before playing in games. Teaching how to make a controlled fall in all sport and situations, tackling technique in impact sports, etc is now part of coaching, officiating and sport culture.
Officials here are commenting that falling away prior to contact is making the play more dangerous, the rules are saying the player can protect themself. The logical conclusion is that the officials are more concerned with risk of injury to an offensive player then to a defender which makes no sense.