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Old Mon Mar 07, 2011, 11:49am
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by Scuba_ref View Post
The way I see it most handchecks are fouls where the defender is playing the offensive player's body and not the ball. When you have one or two hands on a defender and are directing or impeding his movement you really aren't playing the ball. So, if you called it intentional at the beginning of the game feel free to call it intentional at the end. Otherwise, regular old foul and move the game along.
That would make sense if the rules committees considered this to be an intentional foul, but they don't. This action is an attempt to prevent the ball handler to go by them, this is not an intentional foul at all.

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