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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
Because some official like me will call it what it is an intentional foul.  |
Doug Gottlieb talked about this yesterday on radio, and said that when he played, his coach (Eddie Sutton, I guess) would alert the refs that they were going to do it.
I almost wonder how you don't call an intentional there? The hard part about calling an intentional foul, it seems, is that often you can never be sure what was in a player's mind. But when the coach tells you they are going to foul, you don't really need to guess. I suppose the coaches are a little more sophisticated -- if he says, "we're going to go for the steal and play very physical, and if it's a foul, so be it," then I guess that communicates the idea in a more ambiguous way.