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Originally posted by RoyalsCoach
I have a question regarding some of the comments here and on other threads. On another thread it was mentioned that if a coach yells out,"Foul them", then a subsequent foul should be called intentional even if going after the ball. The reasoning being is you know the intent was to foul to stop the clock. Now in this thread the official is saying I am aware of the situation. I know you are going to try and foul to stop the clock so I am going to alter my way of calling fouls. If you know the intent is to foul why is this not an intentional foul? I have always assumed that when everybody in the building knows the defense is going to foul, the official cannot make that assumption. They can't read a players mind. But here you do make that assumption and alter the calls accordingly. It seems to me that penalizes the offense. If the offense is doing a great job of moving the ball to avoid a steal or foul and foul is called for slight contact that would not be called earlier. It penalizes good play. I am not advocating rough play. But I believe you can safely go after the ball and acutually foul without being too rough. It's just my opinion but I would like the game to be called the same from beginning to end.
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So when we do that and your team avoids the slight foul a couple of times and then someone just clobbers the crap out of your star player and they are lost for the rest of the year will you be singing the same song? Don't think so. You will be over there yelling at us for not calling the slight contact. Seems like when a team is trying to foul every attempt is atleast twice as hard as the last. We are not trying to penalize you for good offense we are trying to keep someone from getting hurt.
[Edited by SteveF on Jan 15th, 2004 at 12:24 PM]