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Originally Posted by deecee
I've always thought in HS we didn't award FT's as much as we should have.
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Originally Posted by jTheUmp
My association clinicians have been saying this for years... if in doubt, give 'em the free throws.
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Originally Posted by Raymond
For some reason, a lot of officials seem to be emphatic about putting fouls "on the floor".
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I agree with all of this and have observed the same. If I'm in any doubt, I award FTs. A clinician once asked me, in a marginal case, when a player was driving, why I didn't award FTs. He asked, "Do you think he
wasn't trying to go and score? What else would he possibly be doing?" I've approached it that way ever since.
Trickiest situation for me is when a player passes off at the last second. I have to determine if the contact/foul forced the ball handler to change his mind on going to basket, or if the pass was intended from the beginning. If I think the ball handler bailed on the shot because of the contact, I'm going to award FTs, and then inevitably the opposing coach will say, "but he was passing!" But hey, I get paid to make judgments.