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It isn't as easy....
...as it's described here.
Most of call high school and college basketball and watch basketball at all levels, up to the college and professional levels, and quick fouls (usually near the end of the game) designed for no other purpose than to stop the clock are called all the time. Those end-of-game fouls are not called intentional fouls, even though they are "intentional."
As officials, we not only need to enforce the rules, but we need to be true to the game and the way it's called. When 99 pairs of officials go to school X and call quick end-of-game fouls (and for God's sake, if team B WANTS to foul, give it to them a soon as the player with the balls is nudged unless you REALLY want them to foul the next time) and don't call them intentional, then you are doing nobody any favors by changing the way the game is called.
A bearhug? Intentional. A quick bump? Never. End of game fouling is part of basketball, whether we like it or not.
Rich
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