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Originally posted by Rick Durkee
An official at our intepretation meeting this morning offered this strange (and I admit, unlikely) scenario. End of the game, and a poor free throw shooter goes to the line. His shirt is untucked and he refuses to tuck it in. We are suppose to send him off, but that might give his team an advantage by being able to replace him with a better free throw shooter. How would we handle that? Do we have options?
This sounds like something that somebody on this board might have already thought up. If it is old news, I apologize, but I don't remember it.
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NOPE!!! That's not the correct procedure!
The case play is 3.4.15 for your reference.
That player is to be directed to tuck the shirt in and shoot the FTs with the lane cleared and the opponents will be awarded the ball OOB on the end line following the shots, additionally the shooter will be directed to leave the game following the FTs.
If the player refuses to tuck the shirt in when directed to do so by the official, he should receive an unsporting technical foul. He still has to shoot his two FTs, following his compliance with the uniform rule, and then the opponent will shoot.
If he continues to refuse after the first T, then a second T will DQ this player and his sub will now take his FTs, but the opponent will be shooting FOUR FTs, so is that really worth it to this team to get a better FT shooter to the line? I highly doubt it.