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Originally posted by JRutledge
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Originally posted by RecRef
Unless you are being sarcastic I have to disagree here. By the time you get displacement you are looking at a push. Handchecking is the prevention of a playerÂ’s movement, or movement in the desired direction, by putting ones hand(s) or forearm on the player.
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Then you are just going to have to disagree. I was not at all being sarcastic. I probably should have said if the hand holds, directs or impedes the progress of the dribbler then I have a call. If all a player did was touching a dribbler I have nothing. Now I also tend to talk to players out of those kinds of contact as well. This then leads to less calls of this nature for me personally. If the players do not listen, I put air in the whistle. I just know that you cannot be doing the game a service if we are calling what is essentially touching as fouls. If that is the case, then on every rebound you have to make a foul call.
Peace
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The non-call.
Okay who has kids and has never heard the following, "Knock it off or I"m telling Dad!!!" followed by the infamous, "I'm not to-o-o-ouching y-o-o-o-o-u!!!" as they spin their fingertip precariously close to their siblings beak.
Touch, push, hold or displacement. We all know what the
intent was at the time the infraction happened.
Aside from debating the semantics aspects of it, if the "touch" has intent, the "check" has intent, the "hook" has intent, call it.
And in the above example it didn't matter whether my boy was or wasn't touching his sister, he still got whacked, and that was the end of it. (Or at least until we got back to the house it was)!