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Originally posted by Ref in PA
Last night, GV, 3 man crew. I was the lead ready to administer the first of two free throws and Team B (not shooting) has one girl in the first slot, one girl at mid court and the other three huddled by the coach (no time out had been called - just regular game continuation).
I raised my voice three times over a 15-20 second period "I need a player from Team B to be on the lane!" before I got a player from Team B to respond.
Would you handle the situation differently? Would go ahead and administer the first free throw, knowing Team B would be violating? Would you blow the whistle and issue a delay of game warning? Team B definitely did not respond in a timely manner. They did that one other time in the game only the delay was less, but it still was a delay.
As I said, I waited - I did not want to go looking for trouble, but I definitely would have been justified in taking further action. Just wondering, what would you do?
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First, the only penalty in this situation, is a delay of game technical foul. There is no delay of game warning because this is not a huddle in the free throw lane and the ball cannot be put into play as in a resuming play situation after a timeout.
Second, 15-20 seconds is way too long to be telling a coach to get a player in the first lane space. Since this was a three-person crew, as soon as you were ready to put the ball in to play, the Trail should have been instructing the coach to get a player in the first lane space. If a player has not responded to this request with five seconds, the Trail should have made one more request. If there is no response to this second request then it is a direct technical charged to the Head Coach for delay of game.
This is a tactic to ice the free throw shooter without taking a charged team timeout and should be discouraged. I have found that this is happening more and more frequently.