Just like that

[mick]

Originally Posted by CMHCoachNRef

You show me a post player whose feet are "shoulder width apart stance in the paint" and I will show you a bench warmer. There is NO WAY a post defender can have his feet that close together -- especially since the offensive post man with his back to him is wider than that!!! If a post defender has his feet shoulder width apart, he will get drop-stepped to death.

Sorry, Coach.
I was envisioning a defender legally playing straight up and being protected by the rules.

[CMHCoachNRef]

Originally Posted by mick

Sorry, Coach.
I was envisioning a defender legally playing straight up and being protected by the rules.

I guess we envision a different game.

[OHBBREF]

Does not the greater responsibility to avoid contact fall upon the player with the ball?
Rule 10
section 6 contact
ART. 2 . . . A dribbler shall not charge into nor contact an opponent in his/her path nor attempt to dribble between two opponents or between an opponent and a boundary, unless the space is such as to provide a reasonable chance for him or her to go through without contact. If a dribbler, without contact, sufficiently passes an opponent to have head and shoulders in advance of that opponent, the greater responsibility for subsequent contact is on the opponent. If a dribbler in his/her progress is moving in a straight-line path, he/she may not be crowded out of that path, but if an opponent is able to legally obtain a defensive position in that path, the dribbler must avoid contact by changing direction or ending his/her dribble. The dribbler should not be permitted additional rights in executing a jump try for goal, pivoting, feinting or in starting a dribble.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by OHBBREF

Does not the greater responsibility to avoid contact fall upon the player with the ball?

Only in certain circumstances, and I don't think they apply in the play being discussed.