My position on this is that if you would have called it in the middle of the floor it should be called on the sideline, baseline, etc. Sure B gets the ball either way, but what if this was 2 minutes into the game? Not calling the PC avoids adding a team foul to A and could eventually deny B a FT opp later. Also A1 also avoids a personal foul. If she is one of A's best players and has 4, not giving her #5 is an advantage to A. I'm not going to use the line about rewarding the defense, because I don't feel like I'm out there to reward anybody, but rather to enforce the rules which say this is a PC foul.
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