Words can't describe.... this video.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by CMHCoachNRef

JRut,
It is the same video clip. Apparently a student from the coach's school created the slower versions of the clip. I think it is EASIER to see the hand on the ball from behind (looks quite clean). It is also easier to see the contact from the front which happened just after the ball was hit by the other defender. I think the lead had a good view of the hand on the ball. He appeared to get so enamored with the clean block (yielding his signal), that he may have missed (I will accept your view that he may have "ignored") the contact by the second defender who got nothing but arm as the ball was already popped loose by the trailing defender.

Duuuuhhhh!!!! Of course it is the same video but slowed down.

I am also of the contention, contact is not a foul. It must put someone at an advantage or a disadvantage. You have a player falling to the ground because the ball is taken out of his hands, not because someone contacted him after the fact. I do not know anyone that would advocate this being a foul by any evaluator that I have come in contact with. Either the blocking action was a foul or it was not a foul. Nothing else was illegal here and not simple contact does not mean a foul was committed.

Peace