block/charge article

[walter]

I think we need to make sure that we differentiate between intial guarding position and simply moving to maintain or continue defensive guarding. Especially since there are various levels of officials participating here. To establish initial guarding position, a guard simply needs to have two feet on the ground facing the opponent. If the opponent has the ball, time and distance are not factors when determining whether the guard established the intitial guarding position. Some of us on this thread are simply stating that IF a defender is quick enough to jump in front of a fast moving dribbler and get two feet down facing the dribbler and contact occurs on the torso, it has to be PC. Here's a question from one of my supervisors, if a dribbler is in the backcourt moving toward the frontcourt, and a defender is in the paint of the dribbler's frontcourt looking at the dribbler, has that defender established initial guarding position on the dribbler?