What you guys Think of this? (Video)

[Rich]

I was watching the end of a girls state tournament game this weekend and a team that was behind needed to foul stop the clock.

Defender reached out and tapped the ball-handler on the back with one hand. A foul was called. Properly, in my opinion. Nobody thought twice about the call.

To me, there's an unwritten contract in these situations. Team wants to foul, call that foul the first time they try for it and make contact. Nobody wins when you demand to excess that it be a "good" foul - contact that would be proper to pass on earlier in the game is not proper to pass on in this situation. And that foul's not intentional unless the person doing it is truly stupid and forces the official into making that call.

[Coach Bill]

Originally Posted by Rich

I was watching the end of a girls state tournament game this weekend and a team that was behind needed to foul stop the clock.

Defender reached out and tapped the ball-handler on the back with one hand. A foul was called. Properly, in my opinion. Nobody thought twice about the call.

To me, there's an unwritten contract in these situations. Team wants to foul, call that foul the first time they try for it and make contact. Nobody wins when you demand to excess that it be a "good" foul - contact that would be proper to pass on earlier in the game is not proper to pass on in this situation. And that foul's not intentional unless the person doing it is truly stupid and forces the official into making that call.

This is the way I'd like to see it called. Like in the NCAA and NBA, the refs know the foul is coming, just call it. Our team got a IF one time when my guy whacked a guy's arm (no call), whacked it again (no call), pushed him (tweet, intentional foul).

Count me on the list as this did not deserve an intentional foul.

And, for Bainsey, who said something about this being in the rule book, to prevent fouling at the end of the game, it's also in the rule book/case book, that fouling at the end of the game is an accepted strategy (or something similar). At least it was a few years ago.