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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
If I do make the call, it's an intentional foul. Grabbing the shirt of a player getting a break isn't a basketball play.
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Agreed, although I did have a jersey grab at Christmas on an inbounds play I treated as a common foul. There's a trigger that trips that tells an official that a foul is intentional, and this didn't do it for me.
On a break? Absolutely.
I tried explaining the concept of passing on a bump and letting the play develop to a coach this past weekend and surprisingly we had a short discussion on philosophy and how he thought that was more of a college philosophy -- at which point I let him know that I had the bump and if his player couldn't play through it, I had a foul there. Entire conversation was with me as the C tableside and while I had my back to the coach.
Maybe that's why we had only 4 fouls in the first half
