The question typically goes like this: block or charge?
Collisions, especially in professional basketball games, can happen fast. Officials are tasked with determining what happened and making a call.
If the offensive player is at fault, a charge is called. If the defensive player is at fault, it’s a blocking foul. Usually, it’s one or the other.
But during the second quarter of Wednesday night’s Celtics-Timberwolves game, Boston’s Oshae Brissett and Minnesota’s Karl-Anthony Towns were whistled for a double-foul on a collision.
Brissett was sliding his feet in an attempt to take a charge, when Towns lowered his shoulder and barreled into him, knocking the Boston forward over.