Intentional or not?

[Art N]

I agree that this is a classic, HTBT.

In light of what has been presented in the OP and others, I would agree that the common foul may be appropriate for this situation then the intentional foul.

However, I just want to make sure we don't get caught up on the issue of how much contact is needed to call a foul, that we disregard some "light" contact that could gain an advantage. We may have harder contact on pick and let it go, and light touch to the shooter's arm we call.

For example, if you have an airborne shooter taking an outside shot and the defender gives him/her a "light" jab/poke to the belly on the way up before the shot, ask yourself if you are going to call that a foul? Or ignore it because it was light.

Conversely, we could have a train wreck with two players running for a loose ball in the air, and they collide because they were looking up and we have nothing. I know, you HTBT and not quite the same, but I only wanted to make a point about the amount of contact and type of contact.