Dribbler Bears Responsibility for the Contact

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Originally Posted by Camron Rust

We're seeing the play differently.

I'm seeing a player running down the court and dribbling along the sideline with a defender also running down the court beside the dribble and slowly veering into the dribbler such that the contact is never great but such that it eventually nudges the dribbler out. That defender is not moving laterally but towards the dribbler, slightly, losing LGP in doing so and committing a foul that put the offense at a disadvantage. And that is assuming the defender even had LGP to start with. Running down the court beside someone is usually not LGP.

Alright, that makes sense. I agree with you. I was thinking more of a trap situation where the defender is allowing the offensive player to go toward the sideline, another defender gets there with a foot or so of space and the offensive player is "forced" out (by his/her own bad decision making).