Sun Mar 06, 2011, 04:37pm
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Get away from me, Steve.
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Posts: 15,779
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Quote:
Originally Posted by just another ref
4-19-1: A personal foul is a player foul which involves illegal contact with an opponent while the ball is live, which hinders an opponent from performing normal defensive and offensive movements.
10-6-2: A player shall not contact an opponent with his hand.......
The opinion has been expressed that if the hand is placed on the opponent for an extended length of time, it does provide an advantage, whether the movement of the opponent is obviously affected or not. Given this opinion, it is no trouble to call a foul for even a very slight contact with an extended hand and still find rules support.
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Depends if this "opinion" is agreed with or not, doesn't it?
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