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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett
The referee's whistle in this case made the ball dead before the contact occurred (different than calling a shooting foul). You could have a flagrant foul, but it would be a technical for contact of a flagrant nature during a dead ball. The only difference would be that any player could then shoot the free throws and that the ball would then be inbounded at the division line.
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I don't know, Mark. I think the whistle is close enough to the contact that you'd be hard pressed to pull that off.
I don't think the defender was going for the ball. His hands were never even remotely straight up. He aimed for the body, pure and simple.
I wish I knew what the coach was saying!