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I had this one happen a few weeks ago...
A1 is dribbling just past the division line, on a clear path to the basket, after a turnover. He easily gets by defender B2 by sidestepping him. (B2 was flat-footed.)
B3 catches up a little bit and commits a holding foul. In fact, after he was beat by A1, and was beside A1, but had no momentum, and places his hand on A1's shoulder, trying to hold him up. At no point was B3 trying for the ball.
Of course, A1 is still dribbling, and the ball is out front. A1 is not affected by the hold, dribbles one more time, picks up his dribble, and continues to the basket for a right-handed layup.
He is then fouled by B4 coming from the left side of the court.
I called a shooting foul on B4, A1 shoots two. Team A coach starts bitching and wants a flagrant foul on B3. Later I learned he actually wanted an intentional, but was confused about what was what.
Would you have called the INT?
Now, suppose that A1 is bigger physically than B3, so there was, in my mind, no way B3 had any effect on the dribble because A1 "went right through the foul". Ie. he didn't even slow up from the hold. And suppose that there are 50 seconds left in regulation time, and A is up by 8.
Now would you have called the INT?
I didn't because I felt that at that point, which would have been 45 seconds remaining by the time that B in-bounded the ball, a guaranteed two points is better than two shots, which A1 might not make, and possession. (B would have been in "red", so to speak. Foul to stop the clock type thing.)
..Mike
[Edited by JugglingReferee on Jan 23rd, 2001 at 02:32 PM]
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