whoa havent been in clutchcity.net for awhile. like i got banned a long time ago and they just sent me this email thing that i got in or something i dunno. well yeah yao ming did ok for his first game. i didnt really see it but i saw his highlights. like 4 blocks i think... i dunno but 4 blocks is pretty good for his first game. and those are really nice pics you got there. im thinking about putting one of those pics for my wallpaper!
I realize I didn't word it correctly, but I meant to say I have agreed that DR did get a block on that shot. I didn't see it live, so I was mainly going from other people's posts. At the beginning, Crash pointed out DR probably got his hand. I went with that, but had no proof. From Yao's words and others, it sounds as though it was a clean block. Now what I was wondering was how a foul is called when someone it hit on the hand. I'm relatively new to basketball and don't know the exacts of some rules, like this one. As for what I learned about stealing, I learned that you should steal palms up so that you can get the ball cleanley. Now, I may have gotten mixed up on that rule, however. Instead, it may be for not reaching in, but it still seems to help for not slapping. Now for the slapping in games, Rocketsruule noted that both Steve and Cat had been called for hitting the hand, since it would be pretty unlikely for them to be missing bad enough to hit their wrists. I also don't get to go to many games, much less courtside. I do not have as much input as others. I also wasn't trying to change the focus to slapping of the hand for a steal, and the slapping of the hand during a shot. One thing that may be different is that you CAN slap the hand all you want, AS LONG as the player is not going anywhere. I don't know if that is a rule, but I think it follows the rule above. If someone were to slap the hand while they were in motion, or perhaps shooting, they would be affecting the rhythm, quickness, speed, etc of the player. Or at least that's how I interpret the rule. All I need is some clearing up on the rule. As for this thread, I do apologize for completely changing the point of it. This was all about Yao's 1st game and I helped changed it to something hardly relevant.
RC it's cool. I'm sure people do get called for fouls called on the for slapping the hand, even when it's on the ball, but those are just bad calls. Of course it's hard for a ref to be sure if a guy gets hit on the wrist instead of the hand, and sometimes watching a close-up slo-mo replay, you can't really tell sometimes. Steve and Cat getting called for slapping a guys hand going for the steal when they shouldn't have is going to happen. That just depends on the ref.'s view of the play and it's got to be hard on them to be sure. Blocks should be more obvious since the players hands are in the air, but the NBA misses way too many block calls in my opinion. It was really frustrating watching Dream get fouls called for executing perfect blocks, but that was because the guy contested almost every shot, and I see it happen continually in the NBA. The players are just too darned fast, and officials hear the slaps and sometimes they'll make calls based on the sound itself, but there's just such a small distance from the hand to the wrist and therefore what is or is not a foul. It's really an impossible call to make sometimes - and the best course is to not call a foul unless you really are sure you see it. A great shotblocker will often get the benefit of the doubt, but rookies and known bad defensive players will get nailed more often that not. By the way, Yao's shot is unorthodox, but I don't think it should be meddled with. He's just going to have to learn even he's going to need some elevation on his jumpshot. I don't think that was of any concern when he was playing in China. I also thing once he gets used to the speed of the league he will have very few shots blocked. I enjoy your posts RC, it's obvious you put a lot of thought into them. I really love this bbs, most of my favorite posters knock me out out of my chair every other day. One of my favorites is so patient, and so prone to losing it - it just cracks me up. So far I've only gone off the deep end once, but it wasn't very pretty and that cracks me up too. Well, tomorrow's another day. Later.
Nothing is black and white. ."http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_2.html?nav=ArticleList "The officials shall have the power to make decisions on any point not specifically covered in the rules
How about the part of Ming's wrist which isn't touching the ball and Robinson is touching?...there is still hope Crash!!
