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Old Sat Mar 04, 2006, 10:55am
FrankHtown FrankHtown is offline
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One of the reasons I heard for putting the hand behind the head was to emphasize for all (players, coaches, spectators) that no free throws would be awarded for a team control foul.

The logic being everyone who sees that signal should associate it with no free throws.
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