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Originally posted by Junker
I agree that the hand check is very much about advantage/disadvantage, especially with more athletically gifted players. As long as the dribbler is getting where he's trying to go without the defender impeding his progress, why stop the game for having a hand on the dribbler? The some holds true for the forearm in the back on post players. As long as it's not affecting the action, why put up more fouls that will lead to more free throws?
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Um, maybe because the FED wrote rules telling us to, and then issued POE's telling to follow those rules?
The problem is that the advantage/disadvantage part that you're talking about is never uniformly administered. That's obvious from this discussion too. Everybody's got their own idea on how to call it, and as JimGolf said above, the team's sometimes aren't sure of exactly what they can do or not do on defense. That's wrong imo.