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Originally posted by Robmoz
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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?
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My point is that the coach's comments here aren't worth much. If the contact isn't a foul, it's not a foul. Period. If I didn't think it was a foul, then appeals to "I'm trying to teach my kids what a foul is" will fall on deaf ears. Obviously, the intent of the penalty is the FT, and that factors into strategy.
My main point stands. If there's incidental contact, the coach has no basis for this argument here. I really couldn't care less which rules he's teaching his kids.