Kicking ball

[zebraman]

The kickball in BBall has a lot of parallels to the hand ball in soccer -- both are grossly misunderstood by fans, players, and coaches. A useful phrase used by some soccer refs to explain the difference is "Hand to ball is a foul, ball to hand is not" -- in other words, you look to see if the hand moved to the ball, or if the ball "found" the hand. Seems like a good rule of thumb for Bball on the kick, too.

I disagree. I've seen a foot come forward and give the ball a pretty good whack, but it was obvious that it was unintenional (player was looking up and didn't even know the ball was at his feet). IMHO, it is strictly up to the official's judgment if it was intentional or not.

Z