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Originally posted by abode
That is precisely my point. Normally slapping at the ball is done in lieu of a player defensively positioning his /her body between the offensive player and the basket. It usually occurrs when a defensive player has been beaten and I see no reason why the rules of basketball would want to reward a defensive player for lazy or inferior play.
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The rules
don't. R4-24-2 says that it's legal to
accidentally hit the hand that is contacting the ball. If you feel that the defender's whack on the hand is
deliberate instead of accidental, the rules say that you can call it a foul. Your judgement. Personally, I don't think that I would ever be 100% sure that the defender's act was deliberate. I'm not a mind-reader.