High school rule: player entitled to his space on the floor

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by tnolan

Case play or not, I believe you are correct by rule. Especially when protecting an airborne shooter or rebounder.
And once you're on the ground, you no longer hold LGP status. Not a perfect example of the same play as the OP topic case was only while dribbling.

LGP is not required to have a legal position. LGP only permits the player to be jumping or moving at the time of contact. A stationary player, if they got to the spot in time to get stationary, generally has a legal position in NFHS rules (NCAA rules differ on this).

Originally Posted by tnolan

This does sound like a pretty specific scenario where the onus was on A1 to avoid B1 and they did not. It'd still be tough to rule this as incidental though...A1 is legal, B1 is not. A1 is then thrown off their path and loses the ball, possibly resulting in a turnover and points for B. Sounds advantageous for B to me.

B1 actually is legal. B1 just doesn't have LGP. Think of the rebounder that has inside position when the rebound goes long. A1 secures the long rebound and then crashes into the back of stationary B1 (who was standing there since the original shot). This is a foul on A1, not B1, even though B1 never had LGP (wasn't facing). B1 had a legal position, however....B1 was in the spot first.

Originally Posted by tnolan

Incidental contact normally occurs between 2 LGP players or 2 non-LGP players, where no advantage is gained by the contact either way.