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Old Sun Feb 05, 2012, 10:25am
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"Obliquely"???

4-23-3 After the initial legal guarding position is obtained: (c) The guard may move laterally or obliquely to maintain position, provided it is not toward the opponent when contact occurs.

In that context:

How do you define "obliquely"?

...and/or...

What synonym might you suggest for "obliquely"?
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Old Sun Feb 05, 2012, 10:36am
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Diagonally away from the opponent, reaching a spot in the opponent's path first.

No good one-word synonym, other than perhaps "diagonally." The diagonal is defined by the direction between laterally and backwards.
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At an angle.
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4-23-3 After the initial legal guarding position is obtained: (c) The guard may move laterally or obliquely to maintain position, provided it is not toward the opponent when contact occurs.
Therefore, is it correct to conclude that "backwards" is included in the rule above, not necessarily by the term "obliquely", but by the phrase "provided it is not toward the opponent..."?
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Therefore, is it correct to conclude that "backwards" is included in the rule above, not necessarily by the term "obliquely", but by the phrase "provided it is not toward the opponent..."?
Yep.

In a ma thematic sense, even backwards is probably obliquely since I really doubt a player could move away in a direction precisely 90.0000000 degrees relative to the plane separating the players....particularly when the plane itself it not static.
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Old Sun Feb 05, 2012, 12:37pm
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Yep.

In a ma thematic sense, even backwards is probably obliquely since I really doubt a player could move away in a direction precisely 90.0000000 degrees relative to the plane separating the players....particularly when the plane itself it not static.
Excellent description, Camron! Anything other than towards, and with consideration of a moving target.
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Old Sun Feb 05, 2012, 01:48pm
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In a mathematic sense, even backwards is probably obliquely since I really doubt a player could move away in a direction precisely 90.0000000 degrees relative to the plane separating the players.
So, we really have to carry a really, really, really, good protractor in our pocket?
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So, we really have to carry a really, really, really, good protractor in our pocket?
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And of course we all realize (don't we?) that when the defender is moving directly away from the ballhandler LGP is no longer a consideration.
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Old Sun Feb 05, 2012, 04:46pm
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And of course we all realize (don't we?) that when the defender is moving directly away from the ballhandler LGP is no longer a consideration.
10-4 good buddy.

But you can clarify why if you want to, just to keep the full package of the thread together, so we don't have any lurkers who get only half the picture.
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