When to call intentional fous

[MN 3 Sport Ref]

First off Welcome back to officiating!!!

My last post before I go out to work my ball games tonight.

FED Rule 4.19.3 states what an intentional foul entails. However an intentional foul IMO is a call that is at the discression of the official. You will obviously have a foul call on the play, but the question is wheter or not it is intentional. A few cases (but not all others will have more)

1. B1 holds A1 from behind to prevent a layup

2. A1 going in for a layup is fouled hard by B1 while MAKING NO ATTEMPT to play the ball (may also be technical, flagrant etc)

3. Late in game coach tells player to foul and they push ball handler or someone off ball to stop clock (they key IMO are they making an honest (maybe token in this case) attempt to play the ball?) If not than you have an intentional. Obviously you have to use EXTREME DISCRESSION hera as fouling to stop the clock is part of the game. (Thanks for making me clarify Rich)

I am sure there are many more cases but these are a couple of quick ones off the top of my head that should cover 95?% of in game intentional sitch's. Like I said other posters will have more....


[Edited by MN 3 Sport Ref on Jan 10th, 2003 at 04:28 PM]