03-11-2021, 08:52 AM
(03-11-2021, 08:13 AM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: I thought it was an obvious flagrant foul. Maybe even flagrant 2. The push wasn´t hard but Poeltl had no chance to avoid White. White had no chance to protect himself. There are a lot of soft calls but plays like this where a player is getting fouled hard in mid-air are just dangerous.
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.
Was it a scary play that could have turned out poorly? Absolutely and thank God it didn’t. That doesn’t make it a flagrant though, just bad timing on two guys fighting for position and one getting jostled into the wrong spot at the wrong time.
And even if you want to call it saying that the contact there was excessive and unnecessary, I’m still not sure how White is the one taking the FTs since Willie didn’t even touch him.