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For that matter, what about the foul on Onyiah after Brink hit her in the nose with her head?  I was sure that one was going to go on Brink and be her 4th.  Was the foul called before the nose-smash, on Onyiah's bodying up on Brink?  Otherwise that was adding insult to injury, literally.

I saw that foul as correctly called.  (It was reviewed for an intentional foul by Brink, and none was called.)
It appears that Onyiah grabbed Brink's left arm and pulled it.  Brink (over?)reacted by her shoulders and head going back, resulting in the injury.   Had the initial call been missed, I wonder if they would have (during live play) have called a foul on Brink.   Perhaps so, even though there was no intent.

Speaking of fouls, Lepolo got called for a foul (and there was a similar one later), where she was traveling in a straight line and handed the ball off and stopped immediately.  The defender chasing the person who got the ball runs into Lepolo.   I understand how if Lepolo never had the ball, this could be called a moving screen.  But Lepolo was in the same position she was when she handed the ball off.  Had she not handed it off, this would be a blatant foul on the defender.  Had she stepped sideways into the path of the player, this would be a foul on Lepolo. I don't understand what rule makes this a foul on Lepolo and not on the defender. (In the usual way of speaking of fouls, this can neither be a charging foul (she wasn't moving), a blocking foul (generally called on defenders). It certainly wasn't a blind block.)  Anyone?

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For that matter, what about the foul on Onyiah after Brink hit her in the nose with her head?  I was sure that one was going to go on Brink and be her 4th.  Was the foul called before the nose-smash, on Onyiah's bodying up on Brink?  Otherwise that was adding insult to injury, literally.

I saw that foul as correctly called.  (It was reviewed for an intentional foul by Brink, and none was called.)
It appears that Onyiah grabbed Brink's left arm and pulled it.  Brink (over?)reacted by her shoulders and head going back, resulting in the injury.   Had the initial call been missed, I wonder if they would have (during live play) have called a foul on Brink.   Perhaps so, even though there was no intent.

Speaking of fouls, Lepolo got called for a foul (and there was a similar one later), where she was traveling in a straight line and handed the ball off and stopped immediately.  The defender chasing the person who got the ball runs into Lepolo.   I understand how if Lepolo never had the ball, this could be called a moving screen.  But Lepolo was in the same position she was when she handed the ball off.  Had she not handed it off, this would be a blatant foul on the defender.  Had she stepped sideways into the path of the player, this would be a foul on Lepolo. I don't understand what rule makes this a foul on Lepolo and not on the defender. (In the usual way of speaking of fouls, this can neither be a charging foul (she wasn't moving), a blocking foul (generally called on defenders). It certainly wasn't a blind block.)  Anyone?