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Originally posted by BktBallRef
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Originally posted by zebraman
2) Fighting is a T and that is contact...
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Not necessarily. The act of fighting can occur whether there's contact or not. If a player takes a swing at an opponent and misses, he's fighting and it's a T. If he connects, it's a flagrant personal foul, per the case book.
Also, if you consider it fighting and throw the T, you have to toss him as well. All fighting is flagrant. Call the intentional foul, it's the same result.
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Agree with Tony completely.You could also end up with a major problem if you just called it a normal T,and not a flagrant T,in this case-without a missed swing being involved.Later on in the game,the same player might yap at you or something,and now you haveta lay another T on him.Bang-2nd T-and he's history.The player might also now be looking at some kind of suspension to go along with his ejection,so you might be required to fill out some kinda game report.You do the report,and maybe the player's coach or someone picks out the fact that the first T shoulda actually been a personal foul of some type-by rule.Now everything that you've done goes down the porcelain whirlpool.Not worth it.Do it by the book in the first place and you don't have to worry about any additional problems later.
As Tony said,an intentional foul accomplishes the same purpose as a T in this case anyway. JMO.
[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Jun 25th, 2003 at 03:50 AM]