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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Confused by a foul called against one of his players over the weekend, Los Angeles Lakers coach Byron Scott said that college basketball has become more physical than the NBA.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the Lakers' 88-87 win over the Indiana Pacers Sunday night, a&amp;nbsp;flagrant 1 was called against Carlos Boozer for a hard shove on Indiana center Roy Hibbert.&amp;nbsp;Hibbert was knocked to the floor, and after getting up, he confronted Boozer and the two had to be separated. Hibbert&amp;nbsp;received a technical foul, while Boozer drew the flagrant 1.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNZjriINxDU\u200B]\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That wasn't an appropriate reaction, according to Scott.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CI asked all three referees to explain to me what a flagrant foul is from now, because I have no clue, I really don\u2019t,\u201D Scott told ESPN Los Angeles.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;\u2022 Video: Carlos Boozer says Roy Hibbert is 'not a tough guy' after skirmish&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scott, a veteran of the Lakers\u2019 dynasty years of the 1980s, then said college basketball has become \u201Cmuch more physical\u201D than the NBA.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CMy assessment of a flagrant foul is anything above the shoulder -- not necessarily going for the ball -- but anytime you hit a guy above the shoulder, that\u2019s supposed to be a flagrant foul,\u201D he said. \u201CSo like I said, I have no clue what a flagrant foul is. Ed [Davis] got hit above the shoulders the other night, so I don\u2019t know.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scott wasn\u2019t alone in his confusion. Lakers star Kobe Bryant also had questions.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;\u2022 Open Floor: Rebuilding Roy Hibbert, Cavaliers' bad omens and more&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CI wonder what the league is coming to when that\u2019s a flagrant foul. It\u2019s a shame that has to be a flagrant,\" Bryant said. \"It\u2019s a foul. It\u2019s a technical foul, maybe. That\u2019s about it. But a flagrant foul? My goodness.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CThat might not have even been a foul when Byron was playing. The game has changed a lot.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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