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Originally Posted by JRutledge
They wanted to discourage defenders simply crowding the ball handler and in turn allowing more freedom of movement with the offense and allowing more scoring. And this along with other rules have encouraged just that, more offense.
Peace
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That is fine, but it is not working that way. This defender was in no way crowding the offense. The rule needs some fine tuning. A defender
should be able to take any vertical position short of contact. If there is not enough room for another to make a move, too bad. That is essence of defense.
Most of the crowding situations they really needed to clean up involved actually creating contact....bellying up.