NFHS: LGP or not? PC or block?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Regarding a defender facing ball handler (with a dash of torso language), I'd like to change this up a little, hopefully making it simpler.

A1 receives a pass and fakes a shot from behind the three point arc. The fake gets B1 (A1's defender) in the air, and A1 dribbles past B1 into the lane area. Defender B2, who was standing on the block in a zone defense, believing A1 shot the ball, turns to face the basket (never facing A1) expecting to get a possible rebound of A1's faked shot attempt. A1 plows into the back of a stationary B2, knocking B2 down.

I've got a player control foul on A1, but I'm not sure why.

Am I correct, and why, or why not?

B2 legally got to a spot and was stationary when he was displaced by A1, who had the ball.

LGP allows Bx to be moving when contact and still have the foul be on A1. Since B2 wasn't moving in your play, that's not relevant to the decision.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

B2 legally got to a spot and was stationary when he was displaced by A1, who had the ball. LGP allows Bx to be moving when contact and still have the foul be on A1. Since B2 wasn't moving in your play, that's not relevant to the decision.

So legal guarding position allows some movement by the defense. With no movement, legal guarding position becomes irrelevant.

Thanks.

Some probably believe that the purpose of legal guarding position is to only put limitations on the defender, when in actuality, legal guarding position actually allows the defender to move in certain ways just as much as it limits the movements of the defender.