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Old Thu Mar 19, 2015, 02:55pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by scrounge View Post
So, just for my own understanding, help me out here - why is this one so obvious? It seemed to me to be a borderline call, ok either way. The defender does indeed get back down but his arms seem to be fairly angled towards the shooter. Yes, the shooter creates it...but isn't the arm angle close to a violation of verticality? I wouldn't like it, seems cheap for the shooter to 'buy' a foul like that, but would it have been wrong to call it?
I thought the arms were sufficiently vertical.
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