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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 5101247, member: 1131"] In my listening experience, the phrase "not in legal guarding position" usually occurs in a block-or-charge situation. When the refs say that, they call a blocking foul on the defender rather than a charge on the offense, because they don't think the defender had established her position by the time of contact (or actually, by the time when the offensive player begins her shooting motion). So rather than basing the foul call on contact between Smith's arm and Stewie's arm, perhaps the refs (maybe retroactively) were saying that Smith was still moving when Stewie started her shooting motion. From the replay, that doesn't appear to be accurate either, but maybe that is what the refs were saying. [/QUOTE]