Two for one?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Even if the defender punches the thrower in the face, it's still a personal foul.

Stop thinking of a technical foul as a more severe penalty than a personal foul. They are simply different penalties for different situations. You cannot give a T for a situation in which a player makes physical contact with an opposing player during a live ball. It's that simple.

By the same token, you can't give a player a personal foul when there isn't physical contact with an opposing player. That is why the ONLY penalty that you can assess to a player who slaps THE BALL out of the thrower's hands is a technical foul. Just the way the rules work.

Nevada, I know the way the rules work on this, and I don't think it's so inequitable that it needs review. But you can't tell me a technical foul is not more severe than an intentional personal.

1. Any team member can shoot the FT for the tech.
2. Only 2 Ts and the player is done. It takes 5 personal fouls for that.

Whether it's equitable or not, the penalty is more severe for the technical. That's not really debatable.