What's the call and why?

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Originally Posted by Wanting2Learn

Mregor thanks for the reply. Yes this happened 5 times in a game yesterday and yes I didn't agree.
I always thought if the defensive player was squared to the offensive player with their feet set and made no movement from their vertical plane. that they had established a defensive position and any contact initiated by the offensive player was an offensive charge. Maybe that is to simplistic.
I have seen the defensive players move their knees, hips, and arms and can understand why a block call was made. From what I seen yesterday the girls were still, no shuffling the feet or leaning into the player. A couple of the calls contact was on the body hard enough to move the defensive player backwards. The other calls it looked like contact was made on the arms. Are there other things officials are looking for when making a charge or blocking call.

You've uncovered one of the basketball myths, and that is that a defender must be stationary in order to draw a charge. That's widely thought to be true, but it is actually false.