help me understand this foul

[BryanV21]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Proper officiating doesn't prevent falls or injuries. All it can do is penalize the illegal acts that led to those events.

And if you penalize those illegal acts, like this trip, then you prevent other players/shooters from doing it. So in this case proper officiating won't directly prevent injuries, it can help prevent future injury.

This all goes back to saying the trip was incidental, and the fact that just because the contact is incidental doesn't mean it's not a foul. If you want to debate whether this is a foul... fine. But saying it's not a foul because the contact was incidental is wrong.