Purposely stepping on opponent's foot

[Daryl H. Long]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Daryl suggested an unsporting T for what's essentially a contact foul. I disagree. I also am in no way going to call this flagrant; I don't care if he does it 5 times.

I do agree with Daryl's escalation, but....
1. violation.
2. personal foul.
3. intentional foul.
4. intentional foul.
5. intentional foul.
6. intentional foul (player's done now).

Do you really think this even gets to the 4th step?

1st. Cudos to Snaq for correcting my mistake. An escalation of the penalties for the infraction was my real point. ( I started to correct it myself but got sidetracked).

2nd. I am very surprised it took 14 hours to correct the false statement I made by saying assess an unsporting T. A live ball contact foul can NEVER be an Unsporting Technical foul. Basic definitions.

3rd. I agree with the escalation of penalties as listed by Snaq. And yes, if B1 is in the lane space too early during the FT the lane violaion is also penalized every time.

The question is could this ever become Flagrant or not? If the act is to continually just step on the foot then NO. Could the act be so severe (violent stomp) to be determined a kick and meet definition of flagrant? Yes, I could go along with it. But you better be 100% the intent was to injure.

But Snaq's Q and the end of this post is significant. If it gets to step 4 then something is bad wrong. We get on coaches for alot of things but I am proud to say that none of the coaches I know would condone this type of behavior and would have removed the player. Bench time is a great teacher.