|
CYO
Fouls are not necessarily accidental and intentional. The definition of an intentional foul is broad enough that many fouls during the game could be incorrectly construed to be called 'intentional.' I would not advocate calling all fouls that were not deemed to be accidental as an intentional.
An illegal screen... intentional? Very likely not.
I don't personally like the intentional foul definition (fouls are designed??). The definition is not organized well but I feel the greater priority for making an intentional foul call should be based upon "neutralizing an opponent's obvious advantageous position." And minimizing the importance of the clock situation. I know this flies in the face of the literal definition.
For myself, the clock situation makes it more important for a team to commit a foul and more important for me to call it. However, the clock situation does not greatly make it more important for me to call an INTENTIONAL foul. Personally, I am only slightly more inclined to call an intentional foul during the final seconds than I am to call one in the first minutes of the game.
These are just my opinions. Tony
[Edited by DownTownTonyBrown on Feb 10th, 2003 at 04:05 PM]
__________________
"There are no superstar calls. We don't root for certain teams. We don't cheat. But sometimes we just miss calls." - Joe Crawford
|