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Originally posted by Ridge Wiz
Yes you can & should give the T when a team delays in the closing seconds of a game.
This actually happened to me last season with a rec. league team.
B1 fouled my player after a made basket. I only had three players left when the other team scored. I only had one player that was capable of protecting the ball from the fullcourt defense. I called TO to set up the double throw-in. My best player, A1, threw the ball to A2 who was then fouled by B1. There was less than 1 minute in the game & the score was tied. The sitch. had just been reviewed about a week earlier by the official & I so we both knew the rule. Lucky for me. A1 hit both free throws & we played keep away for the last few seconds.
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Ridge this post deals directly w/ another thread dealing w/ the double pass before inbounding
http://www.officialforum.com/thread/7245 That thread directly talks about this.
Hawks: JR's citation covers the original sitch EXACTLY TO THE LETTER. If a team is behind and bats the ball after it enters the basket w/ 5 secs or less on the clock. DO NOTHING let the clock run out. (personally I may extend that to 6-7 secs if they do it intentionally.) If they heave the ball out of bounds or down the court we have a T for unsporting. If they interfere w/ the throwers effort to inbound the pass they are reaching across the boundry plane or touching the ball it is an Intentional Personal or a T. If the player is dumb enough to try to inbound the ball w/ less than 5 secs left and the defense is legal, too bad.
The way I orr. read the sitch was the team that was ahead was intentionally batting the ball after it entered the basket to keep the clock running and delay the inbound pass. Then we would have immediate T for delay (no warning needed). These are two completely different sitchs here.
[Edited by MN 3 Sport Ref on Jan 31st, 2003 at 03:30 PM]