The document discusses the rules regarding verticality for defenders and offensive players in basketball. It states that defenders must establish a legal guarding position and can jump vertically within their plane, and should not be penalized for leaving the floor or having hands/arms extended vertically. Defenders also may not use their lower body to cause contact. For offensive players, they may not clear out or cause contact in the defender's vertical plane, and they are given no more protection than the defender in judging violations. It provides examples of legal and illegal verticality plays.

1. VERTICALITY
Rule 4 Section 45
Bill Lewis
MCBOA VP / Training Officer

2. Basic components of verticality
for the DEFENDER:
Art 1 Legal guarding position must be
established.
Art 2 May jump vertically, but must
remain within his/her vertical plane.

4. Basic components of verticality
for the DEFENDER:
Art 4 . . . The defender SHOULD NOT be
penalized for leaving the floor vertically
or having ……hands and arms extended
within his/her vertical plane.

6. Verticality Play #1

8. Basic components of verticality
for the DEFENDER:
Art 6 A player MAY NOT “belly up”
or use the lower part of the body to
cause contact

9. Basic components of verticality
for the OFFENSIVE player:
1. The offensive player may NOT “clear
out” or cause contact in the vertical
plane of the defender.

10. Basic components of verticality
for the OFFENSIVE player:
2. The player with the ball is given NO
more protection than the defender
in judging which player as violated.

11. LEGAL PLAYS
Verticality Legal Play #1
Verticality Legal Play #2
ILLEGAL PLAYS
Verticality Legal Play #3
Verticality Legal Play #1