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Here's one. One of my partners called it in a game and in our post game eval we all thought our supervisor was gonna kiss him he was so excited. A1 dribbling the ball and being very closely guarded (short of contact) by B1. A1 takes his right arm(he's dribbling with his left) and shoves B1 away from him (like a hook but with much more force). It was not a hook or a punch, A1 was clearing space in a very forceful manner. B1 was shoved to the ground (flop?!? some might argue yes). My partner immediately blew his whistle and signalled an intentional foul. Of course Coach A was initially very excited. My partner explained to the coach that the call was an intentional personal foul and why he ruled it as such and then we shot two shots and gave B the ball at the spot. The coach was fine with the explanation (the call happened in front of his bench) but boy was he upset with his player for commiting such a stupid foul. Our supervisor told us that the act was too severe just to call it a PC and move on and said he absolutely agreed with the call. The only other alternative he said would have been to rule the act a punch which constitutes fighting and eject the player.
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