LGP Defined

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Adam

Wow

Yep.

Peace

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Man In Blue

A defensive player to the side or behind an offensive player is not in a legal guarding position

Originally Posted by Adam

Wow

That makes sense. If the players are running side-by-side down the court or the defender is chasing them from behind, the defender is not in their path and does not have LGP.

IMO, that statement isn't about the direction the offensive player is facing but about the defender's position relative to the offensive player's path.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by APG

Pretty sure that NFHS assumed that since they defined guarding as an act of placing one's body in the path of an opponent, that they didn't have to include that portion in a section about legal guarding position.

Exactly...it is implied by the location in the guarding rule and is assumed that you don't have to redefine each term every time it is used.