Are every player entitled to a vertical position on the court?

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by MiamiWadeCounty

Do you know when an offensive player is posting up a defender, and the defender is leaning over the offensive player's back, and then the offensive player erect his body to create space?

If the defender is leaning over the offensive player's back, then he is violating the offensive player's vertical space. The offensive player has the right to erect his body. That's what verticality is.

[APG]

A defender is not allowed to be in an offensive player's vertical airspace. If there's contact that's more than incidental, even if initiated by the offensive player, the foul is on defensive player (assuming the offensive player doesn't do anything illegal).

A situation where you could see this play out is with a smaller player posting a bigger player, with the bigger player bring his arms down and the offensive player jumping straight up.

[MiamiWadeCounty]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

If the defender is leaning over the offensive player's back, then he is violating the offensive player's vertical space. The offensive player has the right to erect his body. That's what verticality is.

That's what I wanted to know.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by MiamiWadeCounty

That's what I wanted to know.

You took a long time and some mis-used verbs to get there.

But you already knew a defender had to be vertical and that the offensive player is entitled to his own vertical cylinder.

What's really driving this question? What happened in the Heat game?

[MiamiWadeCounty]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

You took a long time and some mis-used verbs to get there.

But you already knew a defender had to be vertical and that the offensive player is entitled to his own vertical cylinder.

What's really driving this question? What happened in the Heat game?

I already knew a defender had to be vertical and that the offensive player is entitled to his own vertical space, but I couldn't find anything in the NF rules book that said so.

Wade fouled out, Kobe was Kobe and the Heat played sloppy.