Thread: San Diego: Tech Foul in Finals
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Re: San Diego: Tech Foul in Finals
Tough call. Looks to me like HP wasn't aiming for 330 (and the Blue BALL within), but rather trying to get the Red BALL down field in a hurry and 330 happened to move into the path, but without being that HP, it would be tough to say what his intent was.

The fact that it was unsuccessful in causing 330 any trouble (the Blue BALL didn't even flinch in 330s grasp, and they were able to get a [failed] shot off before the end of the match) ought to be a part of the decision to call the foul.

Certainly strategies (even failed ones) of what is being alleged here ought to be punished with a Tech foul, but I have an awfully hard time seeing this as being an intentional strategy, at least when I'm only seeing this one video, which changes angle at an inopportune time for optimal viewing, and never really gets a good angle on the HP in question; perhaps the refs could see something that this video didn't capture.