Block or Charge?

[mick]

Originally posted by Int

mick.... 4-23 (Definition of guarding - legally!) clearly states in article 4 that when guarding an opponent with the ball (does not distinguish between dribbling, shooting or whatever else they want to try with it), no time or distance is required and if the opponent with the ball is airborne, the guard must have obtained legal position before the opponent left the floor.

Int,
I recognized that.
However, all the cases, that I see, make implications specifically to the dribbler and not the shooter. Can you help me there? Why would they not include the shooter in one of those cases if that is the intent?
The relationship of legal guarding postion vs. act of shooting seems to have been left up to the official's judgment.
My line is only one line. On the last step-1/2, we have no dribbler with which to base "no time or distance required".
I cannot understand how this play is so clear, but I've been there before.
mick