Youth
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| Misunderstood Rules - Fouls |
- "Over the back" foul
- There is no such foul. It is not illegal to reach over the back of another player, especially to get a rebound. Honest! It is illegal to hit the player with your arms while reaching over them, but the contact should affect the play. (Typically any such contact is called a foul.) It is illegal to contact the player with the body while reaching over the opponent, but to be a foul you need to physically displace the opponent and it must affect the play. Otherwise you have incidental contact. No displacement, no foul.
- Block/charge
- This is often considered the most difficult call for an official to make. A couple of principles that affect the play is that any player is entitled to any position on the court if they legally get there first. The other factor is "legal guarding position" which few people know about. To establish a legal guarding position the defender must:
- be positioned between the offensive player and the basket (very liberally interpreted),
- be facing the offensive player, and
- have both feet on the floor.
Note that a legal guarding position is defined as the space the player should occupy,
which can be no wider than the player's shoulders.
Once this position is established then to retain a legal guarding position the
player must only remain between them and the basket.
So, jumping in the air does not give up position (the verticality rule applies)
and the play can still be a charge.
The defender can be looking the other direction and it still be a charge.
The defender can give way and it can still be a charge.
But if the defender never establishes a legal guarding position,
and the defender is moving at the time of contact, it is a blocking foul.
Note also that if the player is standing with their feet spread wider than their
shoulders then it will be a blocking foul, regardless of how long they have been
in position.
(Just try to keep track of all of that while counting the 5-seconds closely guarded,
3-seconds on two other players in the key for different lengths of time,
keep track of the pivot foot of the player with the ball, etc.)
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