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[Adam]

Originally Posted by TrojanHorse

With respects to "over the back". I tell my kids all the time, if you dont put a body on them, you will never get that call. Sometimes the players and coaches think it is a foul because there is contact. I always thought a player had to perform the fundamentals of boxing out before there is a call.

We're not looking at fundamentals, per se. But you're right, contact can be incidental on this. The offender needs to push or hold or go through the opponent for the contact to be a foul.

I have heard coaches yell at their kids, "if you would have boxed out, you'd have gotten that call."