Just two weeks agao at a tournament, a fellow coach and I were watching games and saw a couple of very clear shooting fouls that were called on the floor. We were in a facility where you could only stand on the baseline and had good views of each play. The team in question consistently erred on the side of the foul being on the floor rather than shooting.
We both felt that this is one of the most inconsistently enforced rules on the books, and many officials will only call it a shooting foul if the player is in the act of releasing the ball. I really work with my players on taking the ball strong to the hoop, and it drives you crazy when an officiating team calls everything up to the release of the shot as on the floor. Some even wave off good baskets?! I wish that this would be a POE (rather than coaching boxes
).