Is it a foul?

[rainmaker]

Originally posted by Ralph Stubenthal
I just thought of something else. Envision a situation where you have a huge Dick Butkus size player on one team who receives a pass on offense under his basket. He has hands like a steel vice and he is being defended by a skinny kid much taller than he is. So he takes the ball in both hands and pushes very forcibly into the chest of the skinny defender and shoves him back 2 feet and then shoots the easy jumper. The only thing that ever touched the defender was the ball. I got player control every time.

This would either be an intentional or a T in my book, every time. It's "excessive contact" or it's "unsporting". It would depend on how the game and this player's attitude had gone thus far.