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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4671776, member: 12088"] Good clarification [USER=11185]@LwrcasefaN[/USER]. I used to think of it as already being in the direct path, and a sign was being contacted “perpendicularly.” Your body didn’t have to be at right angles to the other player’s movement, but this might show that you weren’t merely sliding into position at the same time they got there. This would be a little like the moving screen distinction. Easier versions of an offensive foul to call are when the offensive players fends off to aggressively (the forearm shiver) or lowers the shoulder (the bulldozer). But even when someone is in legal guarding position, not every contact should produce a whistle. Especially with the bigs in the paint, you might end up with a “bull in a china shop” effect. Minor contact has to be permissible. This is why I’d expect some difference in the way these are called in the paint and outside the paint. [/QUOTE]