Late game - stop the clock fouls

[Pantherdreams]

Happens a couple of times a season in games I'm a part of so unless crews I'm on are the outlier is not an uncommon thing around here.

Its always a murky thing but if we are only supposed to call fouls that meet the threshold of fouls all game long, then the defense has to commit those sorts of fouls while still making a basketball play. What happens IME is that high school kids/coaches who haven't prepped this or ended up in this situation a lot end up in it. So now they've only been committing fouls without trying and don't know how to try and get players in those same siutations.

They just end up reaching or tapping and not getting a call then having to do something that is clearly not playing the ball or making a basketball play in order to get their coach/crowd off their back about committing a foul.

Coach is never happy.

I'm a big proponent of if everyone knows whats going on just call the first contact/reach and move on to avoid something else. Most of the partners are work with also work very high level games uni/semi pro. With older experieinced sophisticated athletes and want the threshold of a foul to be met. I get that. Again IME, with less experienced and trained kids that longer you hold off on the whistle the more likely you are going to be coming away with an unsportsmanlike/int.