Thread: Held Ball/Foul
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Old Tue Jan 10, 2006, 10:01am
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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by crazy voyager
then I must ask, for what? Excessive use of force, ur just opponent having bad balance (could be so)?
If the intent wasn't to hurt the opponent, why the T?
A1 used enough force to put B1 on the floor, and also out of the game. And this happened in a kid's game too. If you feel that is appropriate behavior, so be it. I don't. Jmo, but I think that if you lets acts like that go, you are going to have some real big-time game management issues someday- even under FIBA rules.
JR -- This play happens all the time and doesn't get called as any foul. It's not unsporting for one player to yank the ball away from the other. The fall and the injury resulted from the smaller, weaker player being off- balance and not able to hold herself steady, not from any unsporting action by A1.

Would you feel differently if he'd said, "Just as the larger player pulled the ball away, my partner blew his whistle. At the same moment B1 fell and hurt herself." In terms of the rules, that's what happened.
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