What is your call?

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Depends upon whether or not the official believes that the contact was excessive or deliberate.

The action by A1 could warrant any of the following:
1. a verbal warning
2. an intentional technical foul
3. a flagrant technical foul

I think option 2 should be a technical foul, not an intentional technical, since there is no attempt to neutralize an obviously advantageous position (as defined in 4-19-3). You might make a case that the last sentence of that rule applies here, but since the ball is dead it would be a bad case. Not much at stake because the penalty is the same either way; but I know you eschew imprecision, Nevada .

So, according to 10-3-8 and Penalty (Section 3), intentional or flagrant contact in this context would be penalized with a technical foul unless the official judges it to be fighting, which would be a flagrant foul (10-3-9).

The wording of 10-3-8 seems odd to me, since you'd think that flagrant contact would merit a flagrant foul. Hm.

So the three options very slightly amended:

1. Contact not flagrant, intentional, nor fighting: verbal warning
2. Contact flagrant or intentional, but not fighting: technical foul
3. Contact amounts to fighting (see 4-18): flagrant technical foul