Block/Player Control/No Call

[Hornets222003]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

If we accept the majority view here, a ballhandler could make a terrific, athletic play -- jumping laterally to avoid a defender with LGP; and that defender could then run/slide laterally into the ballhandler's landing spot. You guys would say that's a PC foul.

Actually, in the post from Jurassic, he specifically mentions the case where the defender was always directly in the path of the offender.

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

- at NO time after establishing his legal position was the defender NOT in the offensive player's direct path.

I think your situation introduces another variable with the offensive player jumping laterally.