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JR,
I can certainly understand your point because before this rule was put in this year, we still called fouls for hitting people with an elbow.
It is interesting that you automatically took the comments on page 69 to be about a player with the ball. I did not make that assumption.
Lastly, the original question that was asked specifically stated "excessive elbow" when inquiring if a common foul could be called.
I do not see how something that is excessive could be a common foul. If it is away from the ball and the "player causes excessive contact with an opponent" then two criteria cited in the definition of an intentional foul are met. The quoted words are from 4-19-3.
So, I will stand by my statement that if an official calls an excessive elbow and contact was made by a player without the ball, it must be either intentional or flagrant.
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