Hand is ball?

[BigCat]

Originally Posted by spret93

Play tonight... Player drives to basket, gathers, and while going up (with ball in two hands) gets hand slapped hard (audibly) by defender.
My question is, it seems this should be a no-call because of 10-6-2 ("contact to hand on ball is incidental to play on ball")... but I feel this is one everyone in the gym would have wanted if I hadn't called it. I guess that doesn't matter if the rule says that's not a foul.


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You know you can't worry about what people in gym want. Rule 4 does say it's not a foul if a player trying to play the ball "accidentally" hits hand while it in contact w ball. Rule 10 says legal to hit hand if "incidental"....

If a player winds up and pounds another player I'm likely to have a call just for game management purposes....but, if the player makes what I would call a regular play on the ball, makes contact with hand while it on ball, even loud, ..I just say hand is part of ball.