Falling before contact

[BigT]

Does anyone have a problem on OP play if the feet of the defender on the floor makes contact with the offensive player landing or rebound the miss and I call a blocking foul?

[deecee]

Curiously, for those that are using the term verticality here and cylinder here you know those have specific meaning. And someone falling isn't vertical or within their cylinder.

Depending on how egregiously early the fall is its a block on any contact with an airborne shooter. Most of the times the defenders properly just brace for impact but if they are half way to the floor and then there's contact, I'm not no-calling it or calling a PC.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by deecee

Curiously, for those that are using the term verticality here and cylinder here you know those have specific meaning. And someone falling isn't vertical or within their cylinder.

Depending on how egregiously early the fall is its a block on any contact with an airborne shooter. Most of the times the defenders properly just brace for impact but if they are half way to the floor and then there's contact, I'm not no-calling it or calling a PC.

Yes, we do know what it means. Verticality & Cylinder is about moving out of your space INTO the opponent's space, not about moving part of your body away from the opponent. Nothing about falling back invades the opponent's space.

[deecee]

I didn't know that falling was the same as moving to maintain.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by deecee

I didn't know that falling was the same as moving to maintain.

Who moves towards who? That is all I want to know. If the defender isn't moving towards the opponent, they have not violated the rules of LGP and I have nothing. The fact that B is leaving a spot legally obtained doesn't make them illegal.

[deecee]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Who moves towards who? That is all I want to know. If the defender isn't moving towards the opponent, they have not violated the rules of LGP and I have nothing. The fact that B is leaving a spot legally obtained doesn't make them illegal.

Contact bodies on the floor I'm going to have a whistle, and I'm not going to be the first official to call a PC foul here.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by deecee

Contact bodies on the floor I'm going to have a whistle, and I'm not going to be the first official to call a PC foul here.

Who caused the contact? A. Did B1's leaning back change anything? No. A1 was running into B1 no matter what.

Calling this a block is simply telling B that have to stand in there and take it despite of what the rules say.