Leg kick
 

In our area, we are starting to notice a growing trend. The airborne jumpshooter kicking out the leg so that the defender makes contact. Shooter then hits the deck. How would this be adjudicated in your areas.

First, what Adam said below. But then if it has to be a call: Who encroached on whose legally acquired space?

Generally a no call for me.

It is a no-call and the first chance after he does it I tell him not to do it again.

Not sure it's quite that simple ...

More inclined to lean this way.

We are seeing this too in our neck of the woods. If the kick is severe enough to hurt player is it a personal foul or a player control foul?

He is an airborne shooter, right? That should answer your question.

A player control foul is a personal foul.

Once the ball is released, it cannot be a PC foul, no team or player control. Maybe that is what he is wondering.

Unless it is a foul by the airborne shooter.

The ole Reggie Miller move...

If contact is marginal, then go with a no call...if it isn't, then send it the other way.

On a try?

Not to pile on, but are you sure?

:p

Perhaps you're wondering if it's possible to call an intentional (personal) foul?

That would have to be some kick, and probably not the play envisioned by the OP, but yes, if the contact is excessive, in principle you could have an INT. For me to call that, it would have to be obvious to everyone that the player was more interested in kicking than shooting.

Yep, I was not thinking, I had all wrong in my head.

I should have added: And this would be both.

So on the follow-thru if a players hand and arms extend out past the vertical plane but a player runs by and hits his arm while he's airborne, this is a foul. But if it's the foot or leg, we just let it go?

Your initial premise is flawed.

The NBA actually made this a point of emphasis the year, I believe. They want more officials calling offensive fouls on players for creating contact with the leg kick on jump shots.

I have seen it called a few times.

In my HS school games I have not seen this much to the extent that a PC was warranted but I have seen a few flops with extending the leg and flopping to make it look like a foul on the defender.

Yes, contact on the jump shot is a POE this year...including the shooter creating contact by extending his leg. In fact, I believe the league has been trying to crack down on this the past couple of years, and I've definitely seen more no-call or offensive fouls call on these type of plays.

I think Jodie Meeks just got away with one in the Clipper/Laker game. Watching live it looked like a shooting foul on Matt Barnes but on replay I think Meeks kicked his leg.

Got away with it and ended up with a 4 pt play.

Just happened with a few seconds left in 3rd quarter.