The Call Most Often, or Most Egregiously, Missed

[BktBallRef]

Originally posted by Joe
"From what I read, a airborne defender who contacts an offensive player outside of his vertical plane is blocking."

Again, using the Reggie Miller kick out move example
(because everyone has seen it a 100 times):
the defender IS outside his vertical plane and moving
towards Miller, but a foot or more off to his side. If Miller doesn't "kick out" there wouldn't be any contact. Are you saying even though Miller kicks (or lunges or jumps
or shoulder slams or whatever into the defender) this is a foul on the defender because:

A) he doesn't have LGP

and

B) he is outside of his vertical plane?

I'm not talking about a player who kicks his leg out. I'm talking about the original post, where I player fakes, gets the defender airborne and then jumps and shoots.

Joe, get Reggie Miller off your brain, would ya?