How Bout Dem Wizards!!! (NBA)

[Busyman]

Awwwwwwwwwww.

You can't let the exception define the rule. We've done this

But an exception is a rule. When you look up the rules, it's right in there..that and the hand thingie.

In soccer no contact is allowed except shoulder to shoulder and the ball must be hit first.

[manker]

In soccer no contact is allowed except shoulder to shoulder and the ball must be hit first.

Well that's total rubbish.

As for the rest;

[Busyman]

Well that's total rubbish.

As for the rest;

Well then soccer rules are total rubbish.

[manker]

That basically sums up your views in this thread.

'Because I said so'

[Busyman]

That basically sums up your views in this thread.

'Because I said so'

Well I said something that's in soccer rules and you then say it's rubbish.

Yet you quote instances of no contact of NBA rules.

Then when contact rules are quoted for the NBA you basically say, "Well those don't count."

[manker]

That rule, which you presumably made up, does not exist.

There is so very much more contact allowed than that in soccer. I thought you'd watched the odd game.

[Snee]

You aren't supposed to try and smack someone's hand in basketball we'd get fouled for that in a jiffy, if they thought we'd done it on purpose.

Aimed for the other player's hand rather than the ball, that is.

And the rules you've cited do not count for perfectly obvious reasons.

There's a huge difference between standing still and being run into, compared to tackling or otherwise touching someone in an offensive fashion.

[Busyman]

You aren't supposed to try and smack someone's hand in basketball we'd get fouled for that in a jiffy, if they thought we'd done it on purpose.

Aimed for the other player's hand rather than the ball, that is.

And the rules you've cited do not count for perfectly obvious reasons.

There's a huge difference between standing still and being run into, compared to tackling or otherwise touching someone in an offensive fashion.

If the offensive player has the ball in his right and the defensive player smacks the offensive players right hand to steal the ball it is perfectly fine.

[Busyman]

That rule, which you presumably made up, does not exist.

There is so very much more contact allowed than that in soccer. I thought you'd watched the odd game.

Wtf are you talking about...watching the game...that's irrelevent.

It's in the rules.

[Snee]

If the offensive player has the ball in his right and the defensive player smacks the offensive players right hand to steal the ball it is perfectly fine.

Yes, but the defensive player isn't allowed to smack (, punch, kick, bite, molest, or otherwise) touch the offensive player's hand with any intent other than going for the ball. If he does smack the opponents hand and it's blatantly obvious that he wasn't trying to hit the ball but rather the hand, then it's a foul.