the way this lowly fan understood the 'intentional foul' rule is that if you are going for the ball, it is not intentional, if you have no chance of getting the ball and foul for the sake of fouling than this is intentional
i understand that in any given game there are alot of 'clock stopping' fouls where this could technically be called an intentional, but, is not because the ref's understand the intent
so, again, i understand it is a judgement, but, both cases looked very much the same yet they were called differently, to a fan that watches around 200 games a year, this is confusing
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