False Multiple ??

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by just another ref

At any point in the game after a foul is called the defender may grab his opponent, to hold him up, to pat him on the back, or whatever. The grab, while intentionally done, in and of itself, need not be a foul.

I agree, but, in this case, the purpose of White player was to foul the Red player to stop the clock. If it were a hold, a block, or illegal use of hands, unless extra hard, it would probalby have been a common foul. In these situations, a hard two-hand push from behind, a bear hug, or a grab of the jersey, are often called, with little disagreement from coaches, intentional fouls.

Again, even though I could call, by the book, two fouls, I'm only calling one, in most cases the intentional foul. The only person in the gym who knows for sure that there was a common foul before the intenrtional foul was me, and I'm not telling anyone. This seems to fit my interpretation of the spirit and intent of the rules. It's too bad that there is nothing, other than spirit and intent, in the rule book to back me up.