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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 5236598, member: 1220"] You people are either blind as bats or you have allowed your subliminal wishes to cloud your perspectives. Now the inside defender did nothing wrong. She was just holding her position. However, Ju Ju was being bodied by two defenders. The outside defender was pushing her into the inside defender. In this case Ju ju had position and was being fouled the entire way to the basket. The outside defender pushed and pinned Ju Ju between the defenders causing her to fall. As Ju ju was going down with one knee down and the other leg extended with the foot planted, the outside defender still maintained body contact pushing inward. That is when the ourside defender knee made contact with the exended legs below the knee pushing inward. That is what caused the ACL. Ju Ju's extended legs foot was planted her other knee was down and the defenders knee pushed against her extended and planted leg under her knee. While I can understand not catching in game time, there is a still photo ( the one that has been used to show the injury happening) that shows the outside defenders knee hitting ju ju planted and extended leg. In the fllm you can see that the outside defender momentum carries her towards the inside one ju ju falls down and no longer provides returning pressure. It was the outside defender who cause that injury via contact and you can see that in the still picture. When the still is put into context with the video it becomes clear what happened. The perspective that the defenders did nothing wrong is total BS. Now that would be true for the inside defender, but the outside defender was body contact pushing her during the entire drive to the basket. Ju ju was pinned between the players so she had no where to go. When Ju ju went down and the resistence from he was no longer there, the outside defenders momentum carried her inside leg into contact with Ju ju's inside knee causing the injury. It is obvious that the players were told to pressure Ju Ju as much as they could and they unfortunately took it too far. The refs should have blown the whistle earlier and that would have prevented what eventually resulted. Those that are so quick to declare this injury to be just an unfortunate basketball event and not caused by a foul by a defender might want to ask themselves why they came to that conclusion so easily. [/QUOTE]

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