Sub for the shooter

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by mbyron

How can you have a legitimate attempt to steal the ball from a cutter?

You can have a legitimate attempt to stop the cutter from getting open, leading to a five-second violation.

It's not automatically intentional.

[Jeremy Hohn]

Yes IMO to go automatically intentional in this play is being over-officious. Especially if it is hard deny and there isn't any shirt grabbing or other "non-basketball" action.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

You can have a legitimate attempt to stop the cutter from getting open, leading to a five-second violation.

It's not automatically intentional.

Exactly. It happens all the time throughout the game, and we never think twice about calling it a common foul. Suddenly, in the last minute, people want to change the way they call it just because the clock stops on the call.