intentional foul?

[Mark Dexter]

Originally posted by TimTaylor

Had a similar situation in a boys JV game last night, only the inbound point was near the division line after a time out and B1 pushed A2 well off his established position before I could put the ball at A1's disposal.

Whack - T on B1.....coach B went nuts of course. Had B1 waited until after I handed A1 the ball it definitely would have been an X.

Sounds like a good call - that sort of thing has no place in a basketball game. Normally, it's best to try to talk players out of contact before the ball even becomes live, but when you have a shove - penalize it.