teaching point

[coachgrd]

I want to make certain my girls are not called for an intentional foul on a break away lay-up. More often than not though, we have a bad habit of fouling the shooter while in the act of a lay-up very passively and the shot goes in. I've talked to them about how we cannot "give" the other team two points and we need to make certain they don't get a shot off. I've shown them and we practice how to get back and assume legal guarding position in an attempt to take a charge. There are those times though where we just cannot beat them to the hoop. I have stressed the importance of going for the ball and if the foul happens, it is better than a free throw AND the lay-up. I just don't want the shot getting off. Anyway, I want to be certain that what I am asking them to do is never looked at by you as an intentional foul. Am I correct in what I have instructed my team to do?