[tharbert]

What you don't hear the coach yelling is that he wants his players to commit a foul on the ball handler while attempting to go for the ball. An intentional trip, shove, or hold has a penalty of two free throws and the offense gets the ball back. Coach doesn't want that!

I tend to have a fairly quick whistle when the coach on defense is yelling for his players to commit a foul. Now it is the defense's intention to foul rather than to play to avoid it. IMO - Fouls can get progressively more severe if you don't call what may have been considered on the ticky-tack side in the first quarter. But, there still has to be a foul. You can’t call it if it isn’t there. And don’t get me wrong here…I’m not suggesting penalizing offense for doing a good job of passing the ball to keep it away from defense.

Case in point: Coach B is yelling at team B to commit a foul. A1 is in the backcourt and B1 runs up bumps A1. R1 has a "no call" advantage/disadvantage...and he wouldn't have called it in the first quarter but technically, it was a foul. B1 looks up for the foul and not getting one dives at A1 dislodging the ball and knocking A1 to the floor. R1 calls the second more severe (possibly dangerous) foul.