PC or not

[rainmaker]

Originally posted by drinkeii
I understand that... I am trying to come up with a reasonable explanation to give to the students who are officiating in my league about why something should be a block or PC...

The explanation is that Legal Guarding Position isn't the only way a "defender" establishes position. If some hapless B-team player is standing still near the basket gazing helplessly at a cheerleader, and the dribbler slams into the defender's back, there's no legal guarding position, but clearly a PC. Legal Guarding Position is a way that the rule makers have acknowledged that there can be good moving defense as well as good stationary defense. LGP allows the defense to react to the offense and not just plant and hope for the best.