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Originally posted by Brian Watson:
What does Mr. T think???[/B]
First of all, I love my new title.
As to when how to determine whether an act was "flagrant" or not, I'm going to use half a cop-out and say that part of it is just having a lot of experience and seeing a lot of bad behavior over the years. The more games you work, the more you have a feel for judging an act within the context of the season, game, league, level, etc. I don't think there's a clear-cut answer.
Now, having said that, the other half of the answer is that if you feel the act was intended to injure, or could, under normal circumstances cause injury, you have a pretty good reason to call it flagrant. How do you know what a player's intent is? Again, it comes with experience.
Of course, some acts are so obviously intended to injure that even a coach could figure it out. Throwing a ball - hard - at the back of an opponents head is so obvious that I bet even a giblet-head like Billy Packer could get this call right.
Mon Apr 10, 2000, 09:12pm
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