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Originally posted by Snaqwells
The intent of the penalties is not to grant a team free throws, it is to discourage breaking the rules (fouling). I don't buy the argument that "it goes against what they are teaching" at all. That's meaningless to me.
If the contact doesn't create some sort of advantage, (displacement, impediment, etc.) there's no foul. I'm not taking anything away by not calling it because there was nothing to call.
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Meaningless?
Quite the opposite. There is much strategy involving the foul count and FT's that
encourages a player to try and commit
or avoid fouls depending on the situation at hand. Sure FT's may be designed as a deterrent to fouling but if the FT is not the intent of the penalty then why do we allow 5 fouls before DQ?