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Originally Posted by GtuddaC
Well, if in fact the rule is as you say it is, you ARE rewarding the team who committed the foul. The "intention" when committing an "intentional foul" comes from purposely fouling a player without employing a "basketball move". If this is the rule in place, what is there to stop a team from intentionally fouling on every possesion. If you dont want to call it "rewarding the offending team", you are ATLEAST penalizing the offended team for being in the act of shooting when the intentional foul was committed.
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What are you talking about? How are you penalizing the team for being in the act of shooting? If he makes the shot, it counts and they still get two free throws. If he doesn't, he's not penalized just because he doesn't get
extra free throws.
As has been pointed out, what prevents players from doing this every possessions is the simple fact that the offended team gets free throws and a throw in.