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I too was a bit underwhelmed by the video.  Some of those fouls definitely should have been called flagrant, but there are plenty of times when players get hammered like that and it is just called an ordinary foul.  The fact that he had gotten hit in the head a few times is a bit irrelevant to the discussion (except the one time he got a nose bleed and no foul whatsoever was called).  A foul isn't any more flagrant because contact was made with the head.  It just needs to be unnecessary or excessive contact, usually when the defensive player swings and makes hard contact or follows through after the contact.  As I said, a few of those probably should have been called flagrant, but they weren't such thorough muggings that you have to ask yourself how the refs didn't see it.

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I too was a bit underwhelmed by the video.  Some of those fouls definitely should have been called flagrant, but there are plenty of times when players get hammered like that and it is just called an ordinary foul.  The fact that he had gotten hit in the head a few times is a bit irrelevant to the discussion (except the one time he got a nose bleed and no foul whatsoever was called).  A foul isn't any more flagrant because contact was made with the head.  It just needs to be unnecessary or excessive contact, usually when the defensive player swings and makes hard contact or follows through after the contact.  As I said, a few of those probably should have been called flagrant, but they weren't such thorough muggings that you have to ask yourself how the refs didn't see it.

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