Legal guarding position

[Hawks Coach]

According to your application of verticality:

A1 has legally reached a position on the court. A2 throws a pass to A1. A1 must jump straight up with his/her arms extended straight up to catch the ball. Since the principal of verticality does not apply to an offensive player, while A1 is in the air from his/her jump, B1 can push A1 out of the way so that he/she may intercept A2's pass.

I hope you really do not want B1 to be allowed to play this type of defense.

No - I am not saying that B1 can push A1. For B1 to push A1, he would not maintain verticality - verticality is a rule B1 must follow. There is contact, and as I laid it out, the contact is B1's responsibility. What in my post would lead to an alternate conclusion?

[Edited by Hawks Coach on Apr 28th, 2004 at 12:05 AM]