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    • On Ball Defenders
      • On Ball Blocking Fouls
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    • Restricted Area
      • Restricted Area, Blocking Fouls
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      • Restricted Area Does Not Apply
    • Other Block / Charge plays
    • Verticality
      • Legal Defensive plays, Defenders jump vertically
      • Defensive fouls, Defenders do not jump vertically
  • Post Play
    • Defensive Fouls in the Post
    • Offensive Fouls in the Post
    • Legal Post Defense
  • Screens
    • Illegal Screens
      • Pick’n Rolls
      • Off Ball Screens
      • Handoff Screens
      • Back Screens
      • Other Illegal Screens
  • Non-Basketball Moves
    • Offensive Player Hooks Defender with Off Arm
    • Offensive Player Veering into Defender
    • Overt Leg Kick vs Natural Shooting Motion
    • Rip Throughs
      • Away From the Basket
      • Side to Side Movement
      • Upward Shooting Motion
    • Shooter Launches into Defender at Abnormal Angle
  • Other Fouls
    • Other Fouls by Defensive Players
      • Handcheck
      • Straight-Line Pathway Plays
      • Freedom of Movement
      • Fouls in the Act of Shooting
      • Closeouts on Jump Shots – High-Five
      • Closeouts on Jump Shots – Landing Space
    • Other Fouls by Offensive Players
      • Offense Initiated Contact – On Ball
      • Offense Initiated Contact – Off Ball
      • Other Offensive Fouls
    • Other Fouls – Fouls in Transition
      • Clear Path to the Basket Fouls
      • Transition Take Fouls
    • Other Fouls – Loose Ball Fouls
      • Other Loose Ball Fouls
  • Flagrant Fouls
    • Flagrant Foul, Penalty 1
      • Flagrant 1’s by offensive players
      • Flagrant 1’s by defensive players
    • Flagrant Foul, Penalty 2
    • Hard Fouls that are not Flagrant
  • Technical Fouls
    • Bench Conduct
      • Legal Action
      • Delay of Game
      • Technical Foul
    • Respect for the Game Technicals
      • Overt Gestures
      • Legal Reactions
    • Other Technical Fouls
      • Taunting
      • Hanging on the Rim
      • Dead-ball contact
      • Throwing/Kicking Ball into the Stands
      • Other Technicals
  • Traveling
    • Traveling
      • Traveling on the Perimeter
      • Traveling in the Post
      • Traveling on the Drive
      • Other Traveling
    • Discontinued Dribble
  • Violations
    • Flopping
      • Flopping Penalty
      • Not a Flopping Penalty
    • Free Throw Violations
    • Offensive 3 Seconds
    • Defensive 3 Seconds
    • Jump Ball Violations
    • Offensive Basket Interference
    • Goaltending
    • Backcourt Violations
    • Inbound Violations
    • Delay of Game Violations
    • Other Violations
  • Table Stats
    • Steal
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    • Rebound
    • Assist
    • Atypical

Illegal Contact, hand check, defender affects dribbler’s SQBR

24_OF_107_Seq_Anunoby_vo.1

Impeding Progress, defender wraps screener

24_OF_109_Seq_Brown_vo.1

Offensive foul, off ball offensive player pushes off defender

23_OF_738_Seq_JSuggs_vo

Illegal Screen, Handoff Screen, screener moves into path of defender, doesn’t give room to avoid contact

23_IS_753_Seq_RJ_Hampton_vo

Illegal Screen, Handoff Screen, screener moves into path of defender, doesn’t give room to avoid contact

23_IS_752_Seq_GPayton_vo

Illegal Screen, Pick’n Roll, screener extends backside

23_IS_748_Seq_SSharpe_vo

Illegal Screen, Pick’n Roll, screener pushes defender with two hands

23_IS_751_Seq_ALen_vo

Illegal Screen, Pick’n Roll, screener has legs extended outside shoulder width

23_IS_749_Seq_JPoetl_vo

Illegal Screen, Pick’n Roll, screener does not give defender opportunity to avoid contact

23_IS_746_Seq_TBryant_vo

Offensive Foul in the post, offensive player hooks his opponent

24_Post_115_Seq_Towns_vo

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