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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
The foul should be judged on the contact, not their desire to get the clock stopped.
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Not according to the first line of 4-19-3 (An intentional foul is a personal or technical foul that may or may not be premeditated and is not based solely on the severity of the act). If A1 had just been standing there and B1 ran up to him and hugged him - in a non-violent manner - to pick up a foul, that's an IF.
That being said I can live with an IF on the first play but I wouldn't have been shocked if it had been called a common foul. The second one...eh. I thought the ball handler was off balance but given what had just been called so be it.
As for the T, we can't hear what was said but good, bad or indifferent call we all know there are certain things that are automatic. I'd have to think the last thing the official wanted to do was ring someone up after the IF but it is what it is.
Oh...to the folks who posted the vids, when you embed a YouTube clip you can set it to start at a certain point. That way some of us on very slow work computers don't have to wait for the video to buffer
