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Originally Posted by SD Referee
I disagree.
Without seeing the video, we have no idea what really happened.
Perhaps the dribbler, had no clue if anybody was behind and was simply changing their direction. That's an offensive foul? No way!
I agree that based on what little we know, this is a foul on the defense. I've seen players in transition suddenly stop and pull the ball out in an attempt to run the offense. They have been run over by a defensive player hustling up court to get back on defense. That's not an offensive foul and what I envision from the OP. No way you can call that an offensive foul.
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More irrelevant points. It has nothing to do with the dribbler knowing who was coming or where they were but the mere act of cutting of the path of the opponent. It is, by the action itself, an illegal screen.
By your argument, you'd have to argue that 80% of fouls shouldn't be fouls because the player committing them didn't mean to.