foul on the arm after release

[MJT]

Originally Posted by SmokeEater

It sure will. Try it sometime and see, as a shooter when I got hit just after release and was not able to extend my arm fully it would change the shot. I don't pretend to know all the physics of how the shot really works but I can say with absolute confidence that not being able to follow through did something.

100% agree!!! Not being able to follow thru does affect the shot. Why else would coaches at ALL level preach about a great follow thru. Think of how it affects you in golf. It is similar to why a player will change his follow thru to do a different type of shot in golf.

[Ignats75]

WHAAAA?

If the ball is gone from the hand, how does contact with the arm affect the ball? Is there an invisible force field? Is there a real thin thread, like the wires to a torpedo? Is the air current from snapping the wrist necessary to get proper aerodynamcis? Is there an African Swallow carrying the ball?

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by MJT

Not being able to follow thru does affect the shot.

As I mentioned earlier, you may recall , "Not if the shot has already been released." Once the ball is out of your hand, there is nothing else that you can do it to affect its flight. The path that your arm follows (or doesn't follow) after the release is merely evidence that you used a proper motion before the release. It doesn't actually do anything for the trajectory of the ball.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by MJT

100% agree!!! Not being able to follow thru does affect the shot. Why else would coaches at ALL level preach about a great follow thru. Think of how it affects you in golf. It is similar to why a player will change his follow thru to do a different type of shot.

The reason they teach you to follow thru is because of the effect on the point of release, (or point of impact), not what happens after the ball is gone. Are you saying that you can affect the ball after it is gone, like remote-control? Of course not. If a golfer doesn't think about doing a proper follow-thru, the clubhead speed will actually be slowing down at impact, resulting in a poor shot. The same with a shooter. However, if a shooter is doing all the right things, including attempting to do a proper follow-thru, the ball will leave the hand at the proper speed and trajectory, and it doesn't matter what happens to the hand or arm after that. So if there is contact after the ball leaves the hand, I might be inclined to let it go, where if that same contact occures before the ball leaves the hand, I would call a foul.

That said, I also agree with Bob - if I see something that might affect later shots - perhaps making the shooter flinch to avoid the contact - I would call that even though it happened after the ball has left. It's all judgement.

[dblref]

Originally Posted by MJT

100% agree!!! Not being able to follow thru does affect the shot. Why else would coaches at ALL level preach about a great follow thru. Think of how it affects you in golf. It is similar to why a player will change his follow thru to do a different type of shot in golf.

I disagree 100%. Once the ball has completely left your hand, it doesn't matter how much you follow thru, because you are no longer in touch with the ball. You can't correct something you can't touch.