03-11-2021, 12:57 PM
(03-11-2021, 08:52 AM)DrMav Wrote: Disagree unless you think that somehow WCS had the intention of using Poeltl to take White out. If WCS had simply had a little shove on Poeltl without the subsequent collision happening it may have not even been called a common foul.It was a weird play. I have watched the replay a number of times.
I think you may be right, and at the same time, it doesn't surprise me that a flagrant was called.
As you know, the referees have discretion to take the actual outcome of the play into account in determining whether a foul is flagrant and at what level. In this case, although the shove wasn't that hard, it was intentional, not a basketball play, and resulted in a collision in which someone could have gotten hurt. So, all the factors were there to justify a call by the officials.
If White had actually been hurt, I think Willie might have been ejected.