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Originally Posted by IUgrad92
If we can go back to the OP and 'assume' this was a dead ball play, is not the play at hand a defender blocking out the free throw shooter? And at that, some are determining or "reading the mind" of that defender that he is intentionally contacting him "below the belt" with a specific purpose, thus warranting a technical foul?
I'm not sure I could go there unless there were prior plays in this game that would lead me to a solid conclusion of the defender's intent on the block out.
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Not the same. Assuming it was a dead ball play instead of live ball, it would really matter who close to the dead ball it was. If it is splitting hairs between live/dead, I'm not going to deal with normal contact that happens to be just after the dead ball. Then, the question becomes whether the contact is normal or not. In this case, it can be argued that the contact was not normal but was intentional/excessive (or Flagrant 1). Many might not call it anything other than a common foul but other reasonable officials could.