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Message: [QUOTE="Woof 101, post: 2205113, member: 1432"] I get the Mensa thing and this is an interesting thread (should it have a song? ;)) All fun aside, I have begged for years to have [I][B]officials [/B][/I]solve the problem they have created. Twice the article states what the problem is and it has nothing to do with the clock. "The team trailing fouls on purpose" and "maybe the penalties should be harsher for deliberate fouls." It is obvious to every set of eyes on the game that someone is intentionally fouling [I][B]the officials have to start calling it.[/B][/I] Players running after and bear hugging the opponent is an intentional foul almost never called. [I][B]When a team knows they are going to give up not only foul shots but also the ball it will stop. [/B][/I]No rocket science needed on this one. It does not take a high IQ to solve this problem just officials with basketballs to make the calls they should. If most fouls witnessed in the last two minutes of any basketball game men's or woman's were committed in the first 38 minutes a flagrant or intentional foul would be called. Governing bodies of the sport could bail out the officials by calling all fouls in the last two minutes intentional, but that would be as silly as having the clock rendered meaningless at the end of a game. That and discredit an honest defensive effort. Officials have to simply start calling defensive players chasing offensive players flailing at them with no intention of getting near the ball / bear hugging what it is...... [I][B]Intentional. [/B][/I] My two cents :D .... [/QUOTE]

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