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Old Thu Feb 01, 2018, 10:37am
Raymond Raymond is offline
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Originally Posted by frezer11 View Post
Agreed. If the defender had to reach through the plane, it would be a technical. That's one of those rules that has never made sense to me. If you reach over and swipe at the ball, it is called an intentional foul, yet if you actually contact the ball, it is a worse penalty, a tech.
If you make contact with the thrower-in, it's an Intentional Personal Foul. If you contact the ball outside the boundary line, it's a Technical Foul.

Difference in the adjudication is that live ball contact is a personal foul. Can't have a personal foul for contacting the ball.
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