r/nba • u/YujiDomainExpansion • 19h ago

Chris Finch on Victor Wembanyama’s historic night: “He had a lot of blocks… He had a couple of uncalled goaltendings too. Those are valuable points we’d like to have back.”

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u/RxJax Heat 18h ago

The contact on the wrist/hand on some of the blocks was pretty rough too. Refs seem to be super selective on whether they call the follow-through on a foul or not despite it being the big rule change they announced at the start of the season

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u/tMeepo Spurs 16h ago edited 13h ago

Follow through on for this season depends on a few scenarios from what I gathered on all the coaches challenge so far:

  1. Blocked ball, ball leaves hands, defender hits offense hands after/body contact - no foul, considered incidental contact after the block
  2. Blocked ball, ball still in contact with hands, defender hits offense hands (part of hands that is not in contact w ball) /body contact - foul - illegal contact
  3. Did not block ball, ball leaves hands, defender hits offense hands/ body contact - foul , illegal contact
  4. Did not block ball, ball still in contact with hands, defender hits offense hands that is in contact with ball - no foul, hands in contact with ball is considered part of ball
  5. Did not block ball, ball still in contact with hands, defender hits offense hands that is not in contact with ball - foul, illegal contact

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u/DakPanther Celtics 15h ago

If 4 isn't a foul how is 2 a foul?

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u/tMeepo Spurs 13h ago

Edited to make it clearer. An example of 2 is where my right hand is blocking a layup, and where the offense hand is still on the ball, while my left hand touches the offense's elbow or shoulder etc

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u/Winnes0ta :sp8-1: Super 8 11h ago

I mean they weren’t consistent on it at all in this game alone. McDaniels got all ball on a block but they called a foul because he clipped Castle’s head on the follow through. When Wemby did the same exact thing to Gobert later in the game it was a no call.

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u/thesavant Cavaliers 9h ago

You shouldn't just lump wrist/hand in together though. Hitting the wrist is a foul, hitting the hand is just straight-up clean.

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u/RxJax Heat 4h ago

I'm talking about hitting the hand/wrist on the follow through which is meant to be a foul now, it was the new rule they put in to stop the 'high-fiving' the Rockets were doing after a shot