from the mouth of coaches.....

[Dan_ref]

Originally posted by ChrisSportsFan
Ref: "tweet- push foul on B1"
Coach: "But they were both going for a loose ball. You can't have a foul if no one has posession"

I had a similar play, B1 & A1 both going for the rebound, B1 dives under A1 taking his legs out & upending him. Here's the actual guaranteed to be true conversation I had with coach B as I was standing next to him during the 1&1:

"C'mon Dan, he was going for the ball..."
"Yeah, but he knocked the other guy down."
"OK, but it wasn't intentional."
"Didn't say it was intentional coach."
(Smiling) "All right, but now they're shooting 1&1 and I gotta act like I'm angry."