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Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

But we're not the ones doing the action. It would involve our opponents coming towards us to block us, touching us, and getting fouled. If they want to block us, they foul us. That happened at a scrimmage today. We stand still, they come forwards and backwards. Would a team do this in a real match? Maybe. Not sure. I definitely wouldn't defend against a team I'm getting fouled on. But other teams may.

Not to speak down of another team's performance, but that seems like poor defensive play more than anything else. I would think a proper block would be a team driving forward to block shots, and then just sitting there, while not contacting the full court shooter. Even if there is a single incident of contact, the blocker should back up slightly once so that there is no longer contact and stay still from there. A 3 point penalty is better than 50+ points uncontested. If the shooting robot then went forward/backward to draw penalties that would almost surely draw the ire of G18-1.