Final Four Officials

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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

The contact by #1 was completely incidental IMO. He and the ASU player collided because the ASU player changed his course after being intentionally fouled.

I think this incident is a great example showing that we need to take a player's body of work into evidence to address intent. He trash talked his opponent (#12) in pregame - not addressed by the officials; he trash talked #12 again after a travel. #12 trash talked back after he scored on him, and then after the intentional foul he purposely stood in Harden's way to see if he could instigate something with the player of the year. I thing Coach Romar clearly knows what type of player he is as he rushed out onto the court and ran straight to #1 to pull him out of there. Then after this play, there was another intentional foul on UW and #1 purposefully gave an elbow to #12 after the whistle - again not addressed by the officials - he should have been tossed with his 2nd T.

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