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Originally posted by johnnyrao
A1 is shooting a free throw. B1 distracts his by talking and making comments to A1. Our association interpeter told us that this is an unsportsmanlike technical foul. There were mixed views on it as many of our officials thought this was disconcertion and a violation. We were told to call a technical on this. I looked in the case book and all I can find on disconcertion is using the arms to distract the shooter. What abot comments? Is this disconcertion or unsportsmanlike?
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From a POE on disconcertion in the 2001-02 rule book--"The committee emphasizes that disconcertion is a violation(9-1-5) and may result in a substitute throw. If persistent or deemed unsporting, the team/player may be penalized with a technical foul". They put "team" in there to deal with cases where the bench disconcerts.
From a personal standpoint, I agree with both BktBallRef
and Snaqs. You gotta call it if your're being told to, agree with it or not. I think that it's definitely overkill though to call both on a normal disconcertion, imo.
[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Jan 24th, 2005 at 10:10 AM]