source: PBA.PH
Sat, 05/08/2010 - 10:33
Barangay Ginebra shooting guard Mark Caguioa has been suspended for one game for throwing the ball at a game official during the Kings-Air21 Express match last Wednesday at the Araneta Coliseum.
Philippine Basketball Basketball Association Commissioner Sonny Barrios, who handed the decision yesterday, also fined Caguioa P20,000.
Caguioa will serve his suspension on Sunday when the Kings play the B-Meg Derby Ace Llamados.
Barrios said he painstakingly tried to appreciate the explanation of Caguioa on the incident but emphasized the league rules on “the action and not the intention.”
In his letter to Caguioa, the Commissioner noted that there is strong video footage evidence showing that he had first looked at and seen referee Throngy Aldaba before actually throwing the ball at him. It would therefore be difficult to accept Caguioa’s contention that he was surprised to see referee Aldaba there, and he didn’t see he was bouncing the ball off a game official.
But even if Caguioa claimed he thought he was bouncing the ball off an opponent, Commissioner Barrios noted that the normal and legitimate way of bouncing off the ball against an opponent to retain possession is to bounce it off against the lower portion/extremities of the body (from knee down). However, Caguioa bounced the ball off the person’s chest – an act classified as Flagrant Foul Penalty 2 (FFP2) under the PBA Playing rules.
Barrios also cited a recent case involving Alaska’s Brandon Cablay, who was slapped a similar punishment after playfully tossing the ball and hitting his friend Air21 guard Mike Cortez.
“We cannot rule on intentions of offenders as it would be dangerous to read one’s intentions. Instead, we rule on one’s actions,” Barrios told Caguioa in his letter.
“Was the ball thrown at the referee? Was the referee hit by the ball? “
Those two questions, Barrios said, are the compelling determinants if the playing rule has been violated or not.
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