The “high five” foul rule: greater protection for shooters?<\/p>\n
In addition to the “heave rule”, the NBA is placing a key point of emphasis on the “high five” rule as officials look to target unnecessary and excessive contact on shots.<\/p>\n
As of this season, if a defender makes follow-through contact with a shooter’s hand, wrist or arm after the ball has been released, it will be called as a foul.<\/p>\n
If a player is attempting to block a shot, they can still contest it vertically, but should they make a secondary movement, such as a swipe to the shooter’s arm, this will be noted.<\/p>\n
In the case that there is obvious, illegal contact that is unnecessary or excessive in the secondary motion after the ball is released on a shot attempt then it could be deemed a flagrant foul.<\/p>\n
Marginal or incidental contact on the hand at the point of release by a defender attempting to block the shot will still be seen as legal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The “high five” foul rule: greater protection for shooters? In addition to the “heave rule”, the NBA is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-229824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}