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Tyrese Maxey Fouled Out on this Play

Kevin Kinkead

By Kevin Kinkead

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The Joel Embiid-less Sixers lost to the Hawks in overtime on Wednesday night and Tyrese Maxey fouled out on this sequence:

Man, I don’t know. He’s trying to slide with Trae Young, he’s got his hands up, and the contact is not egregious. Young is a foul merchant, and while this particular play is less nefarious than what he was doing 2-3 years ago, it’s still floppish. He’s still embellishing by throwing his head back like that.

The counter-argument is that Maxey is initiating contact with his legs and making a movement towards Young, i.e. a classic blocking foul. It’s kind of hard to tell from that angle, but his thigh makes contact after Young puts his shoulder up.

People will note that Joel Embiid gets these kinds of calls all the time. Rip-throughs and contact-initiations and similar. That’s not pertinent to this particular play, but it does call into question refereeing consistency as applied to different players. In the case of the clip above, they probably could have just not blown the whistle at all, and it would have been acceptable.

EDIT – I forgot to put this in here:

Kevin Kinkead
Kevin Kinkead

Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com

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