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NBA players are allowed to hold their hands up in the air, yes.
I noticed Battier employing a technique of putting his hand directly over Kobe's eyes whenever he shot. Is this legal in the NBA? I've certainly never seen anyone defend Kobe like that before.
NBA players are allowed to hold their hands up in the air, yes.
Yea it's legal.
Brad Miller does the same thing. I remember he pissed off KG in a SAC/MIN game doing that and KG was complaining about it just about everytime to the refs, but it's legal alright.
No I'm talking about putting your hand directly in someone's face as they shoot nearly touching their eyes. I think this is an automatic technical foul in the NCAA, but am unsure what the rules are for the NBA.
Of course it's legal. Kobe does it all the time.
NBA players are allowed to hold their hands up in the air, yes.No I'm talking about putting your hand directly in someone's face as they shoot nearly touching their eyes.
As long as you don't touch them.
Legal as well.
Thanks bottomtooth, I was unsure if this was legal or not since I rarely see it used. Especially not on Kobe, damn it was effective though.
The only people I've seen use the hand to the face defense to the closest it can be were Battier and Brad Miller. Other than those two, yes that's rare defense.
It's also legal to move your feet laterally side to side to stay in front of a player. It's also legal to communicate with teammates on defense to tell them when picks and screens are coming from a blind side.
, can you please tell this to the rest of the Lakers?
Well junior, if you just used some damn common sense before you posted.
Isn't everytime a defender jumping in the air with their hands up, some form of face guarding? LAWLS
http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/7917328
"The Lakers failed to spread the floor and run the triangle offense all the way to a satisfactory conclusion. Instead, they depended far too much on letting Kobe go one-on-one against Shane Battier. Relentlessly hounded by Battier, Kobe was 11-for-33 — although it must be noted that Battier face-guarded Bryant on virtually every jumper. The last time I looked at the rule book, face-guarding was illegal."
That guy is an idiot. This has been discussed at Clutchfans.
so they are saying the refs miss the call on every possession?? i know kobe is one of the greatest baller now but can they stop riding on his once and give the credit to battier's good D?
Interesting.....
So is that the first time you see someone actually play defense on Kobe? It was pretty effective, yeah.
If true, this would be a pretty dang hard rule to enforce. Battier does get that really close to the face though.
Yea that article made me wonder if this was legal or not. I remember when Kobe dropped 56 pts on Battier in 3 quarters, so I was wondering why he was able to D him up so good today. If that kind of face guarding is illegal then Battier got lucky it wasn't called.
I think it is a T in college (unsporstmanlike conduct), but that's kind of a tough one to judge shot-to-shot.
Stupid Lakers fan, wanting to believe craying lakers fan Journalist.
Here get to know this. It wasn't that hard to look up.
http://www.nba.com/media/rule_book_2006-07.pdf
And how terrible a job did this journalist do to not actually read the rule.
Face guarding is illegal. If you come from behind the player and put your hand around their head to guard their eyes. LOL.
Im sure he just read the glossary where it says
Face (eye) guarding. Listed under the Technicals section.
I looked at the 06-07 rulebook. Face guarding is illegal if the opponent does not have possession of the basketball.
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