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Maybe I shouldn't play...
I don't play a ton of basketball and I'm not particularly athletic, so my friends and I put together a team to play in the intramural league (NFHS rules, or so they tell me) at our university. I'm a pretty even-keeled person. I don't get frustrated easily, which is why officiating suits me well. I do often get frustrated when I'm playing sports, though. So when the other team got their third or fourth breakaway in the first eight minutes of our game today, I was a bit frustrated and gave the kid a solid push to the back to prevent the basket. I fully expected the official to come up with an intentional foul, but instead they decided to call a technical foul.
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Really? Sounded like one of the usual circumstances one calls an INT/FF1 for...a breakaway lay-up where the defender pushes the opponent in the back and causes excessive contact.
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Well I can't comment on how the officials handled the play as I don't know all their rules. It's obvious they don't follow pure NFHS rules. I was just commenting on the play itself. There was nothing in the play, that indicated to me, that it needed to be upgraded to a flagrant/FF2.
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Player on a breakaway gets shoved in the back could very well, and easily, be excessive. We don't need a punch or an elbow to qualify a flagrant foul.
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Flagrant foul 2 (more accurately flagrant 2 personal foul)...NCAA equivalent/terminology that equals NFHS' flagrant foul. And by virtue of saying it was excessive contact means it's intentional. Now you're right that a play like this, in general, could be flagrant but nothing in the OP suggested that IMO.
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They certainly wouldn't have been wrong to toss me given the level of play. Definitely wouldn't have been flagrant in a competitive NFHS game, though. Simply intentional. Admittedly, it was embarrassing for me. Still upset that I let my frustrations get the best of me.
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I had a ball thrown at my head this year after calling a technical, its crazy how seriously some of these guys (and gals) take it |
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