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Originally Posted by dave30
Went to meeting last night. Points of emphasis are hand-checking and/or putting hands on offensive player with or without the ball...specifically no forearms.
How is the defense allowed to guard the big post man when he posts up without touching him at all? I didn't see the forearm as being a problem as long as the defender wasn't pushing, but rules are rules.
Are we supposed to call the foul when a player gets touched while making a move and beats a hand-check? It seems that we may be calling a lot more fouls this year.
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Dave, no hand-checking, forearms, etc. have been almost an annual POE in the FED rule book for at least the last ten years. The NFHS keeps putting it in the rule book because they
WANT you to call a lot more fouls for those acts. They
DON'T want individual officials deciding to let forearms go because those officials personally don't feel they're a problem. A forearm may not be pushing but it
IS holding.
And btw, a single quick defensive "touch" and a "hand-check" are two entirely different things. Only one of them is a foul.