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Good enough, and I hear ya on the HTBT aspect of it.
What's emerged has been very helpful. I'd always remembered it as "contact above the shoulders" period, and not an elbow above the shoulders. I keep trying to picture the state newsletter in my head and whether the illustrations always included elbows landing, either by definition or by chance.
At any rate, if a ball handler palms somebody's face away or slips an arm bar above the shoulder while pushing a defender away, I'm not going to think of it as an automatic IF any more.
(To clarify, in the 4-5 years since it came out, I think I've seen it come into play just once, and that was about a month ago. Thankfully now, it was just an inadvertent boxing out elbow to the head.)
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