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Illegal use of hands – Extending the hands outside the cylinder and causing illegal contact (for example, going for a steal but hitting the player's hand or arm, or hitting the arm of a shooter). Hand-checking – Contact by the defense on a ball handler that impedes a player's speed, quickness, rhythm, and/or balance.
In basketball, a foul is an infraction of the rules more serious than a violation. Most fouls occur as a result of illegal personal contact with an opponent and/or unsportsmanlike behavior. Fouls can result in one or more of the following penalties: The team whose player committed the foul loses possession of the ball to the other team.
In basketball, a technical foul (colloquially known as a "T" or a "tech") is any infraction of the rules penalized as a foul which does not involve physical contact during the course of play between opposing players on the court, or is a foul by a non-player.
Examples include embellishing the impact of incidental contact on block/charge plays or field goal attempts, using a “head bob” to simulate illegal contact and using any tactic to create an ...
In basketball, a flagrant foul is a personal foul that involves excessive or violent contact that could injure the fouled player. A flagrant foul may be unintentional or purposeful; the latter type is also called an "intentional foul" in the National Basketball Association (NBA). However, not all intentional fouls are flagrant fouls, as it is ...
BLAIR: During live play we called illegal leg to leg to contact. During postgame review when we looked at the play there was no illegal contact on the play. QUESTION: So if there was a challenge ...
Basketball is a ball game and team sport in which two teams of five players ... Personal foul – A breach of the rules that concerns illegal personal contact with an ...
The NBA admitted Saturday that officials missed a critical call in the final seconds of the Sacramento Kings’ heartbreaking 101-100 loss to the Boston Celtics on Friday at TD Garden.