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Originally Posted by KCRef
Do you consider this situation different than hearing a coach yell to his player "foul him", in order to stop the clock late in the game?
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You call the act, not what the coach may say. See case book play 4.19.3SitD. In the
COMMENT that case play says
"Officials must determine if a foul is intentional or not by judging the fouling act itself, not whether or not the coach instructed a player to perform the act." On a throw-in, it's always a judgment call. If the thrower still has the ball, then if you feel that the defender fouled specifically just to stop the clock(iow it wasn't a legitimate attempt to play the ball or the player), call the intentional foul. That's right out of the definition of an intentional foul.