[mbyron]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Your rationalization is wrong.

All fouls are either Personal (generally, live ball contact) or Technical (generally, dead-ball contact or non-contact).

The foul *might* have an adjective on the front -- common, Intentional , Flagrant, ...

Dead ball contact is ignored if it's not Intentional or Flagrant. So, there's no "common" Technical for contact.

Your play had dead ball contact that couldn't be ignored. So, it was a T. The calling official judged it to be non-flagrant. The only choice left is an Intentional Technical foul.

(and, in all of the above, I'm ignoring dead ball contact on or by an airborne shooter)

+1

Another way to think of it: we ignore dead ball contact unless intentional or flagrant. Excessive contact is one of two grounds for calling an intentional foul, which must be a T when the ball is dead (assuming no airborne shooter).