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Old Sun Feb 18, 2001, 08:17pm
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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
It's tough when you have teams of different sizes. Small players go flying on legal plays, and fly harder on normal fouls than would players that equal the size of the opponents.
Coach -- This is exactly right!! I do think that the larger and stronger players need to adjust and if someone goes flying on a foul, it should be considered as rough play, possibly flagrant. To me this seems reasonable. I called a foul flagrant one time (my first) which was just exactly in this description. The foul-er was bigger and stronger, and the foul-ee didn't see it coming. It was a two-handed shove in the side away from the ball, and the body went flying, and then skidding, about 10 feet total distance. I got into big trouble for this. Several people with lots of reffing experience and study said I should have just called it intentional. To me, the foul-er didn't make any adjustment for the opponent's personal characteristics, and I felt she was being out of control. But my betters thought that I should have called the first one intentional to get the message across, and see if she learned her lesson. Anyway, I learned my lesson!!
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