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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
However, if B1 were to purposely swing his arms and elbows about such that it were reasonable to believe that it was unsafe for the two attacking opponents to enter the FT lane in an attempt to score, then in that particular situation merely calling a violation would indeed allow Team B to benefit from a grossly unfair tactic. Therefore the NFHS ruling should be invoked and this should be deemed an unsporting technical foul.
See how vastly different those two situations are?
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Yup, one is a safety issue as well as a potential indimidation tactic and has nothing to do with defending the ball. Your tazmanian devil has nothing to do with legitimate attempts to steal the ball that result in fouls.
If refs will call the intentional fouls as laid out in the rule book, there won't be any need for these exotic ideas of reform.
As I said, how many times do we really get more than 2 or 3 of these strategic fouls in a game? They're part of the game. If we want to speed the game up, take away a timeout or something, but I see a lot of solutions that vastly outweigh the "problem."