Block/Player Control/No Call

[Hornets222003]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

If the contact comes before the fall, it's very tough to rule it a flop, and the rule explicitly allows a player to brace for contact by moving away. IMO, if B1 is moving away from A1 and still gets run over, A1 deserves the foul.
If, OTOH, B1's movement away from A1 causes him to lose his balance such that incidental contact finishes the job, I'm ok with incidental contact.

Agreed.

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Further, in NFHS rules, you cannot call a player for a foul if he's merely lying on the floor and someone trips over him.

What I have in mind when I think of "flop" is that player that falls to the floor violently after incidental contact trying to "draw" a charge. When that player trips someone, I am more inclined to call the block.