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The committee did not say, "fouling to prevent a layup is an accepted coaching strategy." If they did, I might have taken the same issue with it as I did here. However, here the committee is emphasizing that intentional fouls should be called and its been a POI forever. Yet they are saying that intentional fouls are essentially acceptable, at least as a strategy. If that's not inconsistent, I don't know what is.
How do you "properly" commit a rules infraction where "properly" is defined by those who originally wrote the rules, intending on infractions being illegal and penalized? That's the issue I have here.
In football, they changed intentional grounding rules to create a balance of play. 15 years ago (or whenever), a QB couldn't spike the ball to stop the clock. Now they can. But it was a rule change. The football committee didn't say, "you can properly stop the clock by doing this, which is an acceptable coaching strategy, but it is still a rules infraction and will be penalized."
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