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Repeated violations
With the score tied in the 6A Florida Boys Final, team A player is fouled in the act of shooting with 1 second remaining. He makes the first throw and a time-out is called. When play resumes, as soon as the ball is bounced to the shooter, Team B players enter the lane. The shooter intentionally misses the shot by clanging it off the front of the rim. Obviously, Team A wants a miss to insure that time expires before Team B can take any kind of shot. Team B is going to violate until Team A scores so that they can set up a play from out of bounds. This happens four straight times until the shooter accidently scores. Team B's shot from beyond half court after the throw-in falls short.
I would think that the officials should have warned Team B to stop the intentional violations and then assessed a technical foul if the violations continued. But for the accidentally made free throw, they could still be there.
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