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Message: [QUOTE="Biff, post: 3075000, member: 5"] All too often attempts like this backfire and go down a rabbit hole but I will try. The hard block on Danger's breakaway attempted layup sure looked like a foul when I watched the game. Sure looked to me that Crystal's forehead got "thwapped" (I stole that term from Batman) by Thigpen's upper arm. Since we have well over a week until more game action there's plenty of time to look back so I did. I've provided a reply of the two angles shown during the game. First the real time angle from upper court-side followed by the much closer replay slow motion shot from under the basket. I followed those views up with slow motion versions of both angles. In real time watching the game, it was the under the basket angle that had me believing with some confidence that Crystal took a good blow to the head during the block. But, when you combine that angle with a slow motion view from the sideline, my opinion swung from being convinced she was fouled hard to now believing that the block was clean. The key here is that from the baseline, it appears that as Thigpen's arm swipes by Crystal's head her head jerks back in reaction to the arm contact with her forehead. But, when you look at the slow motion of the side view, one can see that as a reaction to the force Thigpen places on the ball, Crystal's body twists away from Thigpen and the arm really doesn't come close to Crystal's head. It may be possible that there was some contact in the mid body area but to me it seems that if there was it was only a brushing inconsequential action. So, my opinion has been changed and I'm chalking up a good call to the refs on this one. [MEDIA=youtube]v4gOTeu9NKk[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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