|
As requested -
2004-05 Casebook:
Part I Comments on the 2004-05 Revisions
OBSTRUCTING AN OPPONENT'S VISION RULE EXPANDED (10-3-7d):
Purposely obstructing an opponent's vision by waving or placing hands(s)near his or her eyes now also includes the player with the ball. Previously the rule only prohibited the act against a player without the ball. Guarding a player's eyes should not be allowed as an effort to obstruct any player's movement and is an unsafe act. It is a technical foul whether or not the player has the ball.
Part 2 Other play situations
Rule 10 Fouls and Penalties
OBSTRUCTING OPPONENT'S VISION
*10.3.7 SITUATION A: Does holding or moving a hand or hands in front of the face of a player who has the ball, by an opponent who is in a legal guarding position, constitute unsporting tactics? RULING: Yes. The described action is illegal. It is unsporting for a guard to take a position behing a post player, or to take a position facing an opponent, or to take a position with his/her back to the ball and facing the opponent and then in either case, wave or hold the hands in front of the opponent's eyes so that the opponent cannot see. Holding or waving hands near the eye for the ostensible purpose of obstructing an opponent's vision is unsporting. (10-3-7c; 10-6-1)
|