Tripping, Or Being Tripped ???

[BigCat]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

(Question: Did the log, as a tree in the forest, make a sound when it fell?)

Thus, the title of this thread: Tripping, Or Being Tripped ???

A player is entitled spot on the floor.provided it legal. In legal guarding definition of 4 we have verticality. in screening defintion we have verticality with a STANCE shoulder width apart. When a player is lying on the floor he is not legal. Consider, player A1 stands 10 feet away from B1. He has his hands into his chest with elbows extending outside shoulders. B1 has all day to avoid A1. He runs close to A1 trying to stay with his man. He runs into A1's extended elbow. That IS a foul on A1. He's standing, not moving. still a foul because he is outside his plane. When your lying on the floor you are horizontal.....

you are not entitled to lie down. you can fall down, and you might not mean it, but sometimes you just have to get the hell out of the way....and if you dont its a foul on you.

(Did better on shift key...work in progress)