Intentional foul

[zebraman]

No offense, but what makes you think the coach was "out of it?" As an official, I can appreciate a coach who keeps his piehole shut... it doesn't mean he wasn't into the game. Not all coaches are type A personalities.

As the previous poster said, it's hard to comment on the foul without being there. I'm going to assume that the official thought that the foul was harder than it needed to be and maybe the ref was doing some preventative officiating and sending a message to nip it in the bud. Or maybe since he was a few feet from the play rather than having a view from the stands he (and possibly the coach) saw something that you didn't see.

Z