|
I've come around to what stripes posted. I've been told at camp and in game situations that if the only thing the defender can do is to foul to stop a play, the call should be intentional. The one play I had was in a college game where A1 stole the ball from B1 near the division line and broke to the basket. B1 trailing A1. A1 goes in for a lay-up and B1, from behind, tries to block the ball and contacts A1 in the back and head and made a swat at the ball. We've all seen this where somebody tries to block a ball from behind and there's a crash. I called it a common foul (two shots to A1). Afterwards, my partner a D1 official and my supervisor asked me whether I considered calling an intentional foul on the play. When I said no, they asked me "what else could B1 have done in that situation other than foul? He couldn't have gotten to the ball other than going through A1.". With that being the case, why not intentional. I've tried to look at these type of things that way ever since.
|