03-11-2021, 02:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-11-2021, 02:44 PM by embellisher.)
(03-11-2021, 12:57 PM)mavsluvr Wrote: 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.
What about the fact that White got the FTs instead of Poeltl?