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Originally Posted by johnny d
The shoe throwing could be classified as extreme. The or in the rule means it doesn't have to be both extreme and persistent, just one of the above.
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It could but – and this could just be me – but when I think of flagrant fouls I think of something directed at another player, bench personnel or one of the officials. If the noncontact action here was throwing the ball
at someone, fine. Throwing the ball at a try is unsporting but not to the level of immediately tossing a player, IMO.
In something completely unusual that isn't covered by the rules I’m looking at the overall goal of applying the penalty. If Team A is down three and A1 is shooting a three at the buzzer when B1 contacts the try with his/her flying shoe, the goal would be give Team A a chance to recover what it lost: an opportunity to tie and/or win the game while penalizing B1’s behavior. In the video in the OP since the ball wasn’t contacted the goal is to penalize B1 for doing something unsporting/dumb.