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Video is really helpful, but I need to see more examples to understand this rule. And I have a bunch of questions:
**What if player in white (W) stopped or slowed down so that contact was never made? ** No foul? Same result for player in green (G) - he's stopped W from getting near G's teammate who has the ball...
**What if it wasn't against a board? ** Presumably then contact would not happen, or if it did, it would be much harder to say who 'initiated' it to the point that I doubt any ref would call it? How would you define an acceptable line for G to take? Isn't it like right-of-way?
What if G survived the contact, or even managed to charge through, knocking W off? Still a foul by G? In that instance is it like blocking in basketball where often the person who ends up on the floor is the person who committed the foul? (not necessarily a bad thing, but could do with highlighting that ending up on the floor doesn't automatically make you the victim, same as with T-Boning)