WASH/UCONN: Why not foul at end of regulation?

[zebraman]

Originally Posted by ronny mulkey

Zebra,

I doubt they know the statistical probabilities of this 2nd route because most are scared to even try it.

You're kidding right? With all the money on the line, all the assistant coaches who spend 20 hours a day poring over game film and statistics, you don't think that the coaches know the odds of every last-second situation that they simulate? Come on.

Fans (and refs being fans) only remember the games where the last-second shot went in. They don't remember the hundreds of games where the last second shot missed.

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[Nevadaref]

Because some official like me will call it what it is an intentional foul.

[rulesmaven]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Because some official like me will call it what it is an intentional foul.

Doug Gottlieb talked about this yesterday on radio, and said that when he played, his coach (Eddie Sutton, I guess) would alert the refs that they were going to do it.

I almost wonder how you don't call an intentional there? The hard part about calling an intentional foul, it seems, is that often you can never be sure what was in a player's mind. But when the coach tells you they are going to foul, you don't really need to guess. I suppose the coaches are a little more sophisticated -- if he says, "we're going to go for the steal and play very physical, and if it's a foul, so be it," then I guess that communicates the idea in a more ambiguous way.