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I think the Fed wants us, in a behavior modification role, to call mere contact, albeit incidental, a personal foul when that defender crosses the FT line prior to the ball striking the ring or the backboard and merely contacts the shooter, so as to inhibit this activity.
I see it not all that much different than when, according to 9-2-10 PENALTY 4, we are compelled to call an intentional foul for mere contact with the thrower, in spite of that contact being merely incidental. They don't want that being done, so the contact doesn't have to rise to the level of a foul. Yet it is penalized as such.
It's just that our state apparently has a different idea, as do other states as I'm hearing from others recently. To wit, incidental contact is just that. Contact that is a foul is just that.
DISCLAIMER: Since I begin this post with the words, "I think...", I reserve the right to be wrong. Someone else might even spark a different opinion in me.
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