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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4440790, member: 12088"] I've noticed teams trying to foul at the end of games -- and it's just a tactic, tedious perhaps, but nothing malicious in it. Still, I think there's a problem here. I noticed it in the Maryland-DePaul game yesterday, too. In the closing seconds, Sellars fouled the DePaul ball handler a bit harder perhaps than she meant to, but that was because she was in a hurry and the DePaul player was elusive. If the player with the ball is artful and quick, they can make it hard to foul them without simply grabbing them. At any other point in the game, if someone simply grabbed Nika or Azzi as they were driving past, the refs wouldn't treat that as an ordinary foul. Some sort of 'upgrade' would be applied. The same rules should still apply at the end of close games. If one of your players is simply good at eluding the designated foulers, your team should be rewarded for it -- when they're grabbed, the refs should whistle it, give the free throws, and then give the ball back to the same team. If a team can't foul effectively -- that is, within the usual rules -- they shouldn't get a free pass for it, even if the practice of fouling to rescue a game has become practically pro forma. Jim Valvano invented this tactic years ago, and it wasn't his best legacy, even though it got NC St to a national championship. [/QUOTE]