Is it legal to push back the opponent while posting

[Amesman]

Been itching to ask for views on this scenario for a while and this seems like a good opening ...

Two-whistle game, you're lead, administering B1's free throws. During said throws, what's your best advice for determining whether A2 (in the lowest position, opposite) is getting pushed by B2 to the point of a foul during the shot and boxout?

Let me clarify: A2 is not jumping, but rather digging in for the box-out. There's a total straight-lining there.

I knew the family of A2 in one particular game and asked later if he was really getting the pressure from behind and he said yes. I had thought as much, yet from the endline, I saw no displacement so figured I had nothing to call. I told him it would have helped if I saw him move or lurch at some point. Thoughts?

[tref]

Originally Posted by Amesman

I saw no displacement so figured I had nothing to call.

Minus any obvious displacemment, thats a tough call for the L.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Amesman

I knew the family of A2 in one particular game and asked later if he was really getting the pressure from behind and he said yes. I had thought as much, yet from the endline, I saw no displacement so figured I had nothing to call. I told him it would have helped if I saw him move or lurch at some point. Thoughts?

Cannot call what you cannot see. And it is worse to call something purely on a guess.

Peace

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Amesman

Two-whistle game, you're lead, administering B1's free throws. During said throws, what's your best advice for determining whether A2 (in the lowest position, opposite) is getting pushed by B2 to the point of a foul during the shot and boxout?

My best advice is to not look there because that's the T's / C's responsibility. L has rebounding on his/her side.

[tref]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

My best advice is to not look there because that's the T's / C's responsibility. L has rebounding on his/her side.

Even if its the kid of a family friend?

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Amesman

Let me clarify: A2 is not jumping, but rather digging in for the box-out. There's a total straight-lining there.

....asked later if he was really getting the pressure from behind and he said yes.

So, if A2 wasn't displaced, that means that A2 is applying just as much pressure in the opposite direction....Newton says so.

So, who is really doing the pushing? One player wants to move their opponent in, and the other wants to move their opponent out.....or they want to resist being displaced. Both are applying pressure in roughly equal amounts. Only when one displaces the other (or it becomes too rough) does the contact become a foul....and either one could be the guilty party.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

So, if A2 wasn't displaced, that means that A2 is applying just as much pressure in the opposite direction....Newton says so.

So, who is really doing the pushing? One player wants to move their opponent in, and the other wants to move their opponent out.....or they want to resist being displaced. Both are applying pressure in roughly equal amounts. Only when one displaces the other (or it becomes too rough) does the contact become a foul....and either one could be the guilty party.

Not necessarily, inertia plays a factor, as does size difference.