High school Free throws violation

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by BryanV21

To avoid a FT shooter throwing the ball hard off the backboard in order to try and get a long rebound back to him?

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

Camron:

I am not sure that is true. I cannot ever remember that being the case in NFHS and NCAA Men's, but I do believe that there was a year or two awhile back where it was legal due to a mistake in changing a rule and it was corrected in NCAA Women's.

MTD, Sr.

You've both misunderstood my post....

I was saying that it used to be that the ball hitting the backboard ended the FT restrictions on entering the lane, not that it made the FT legal. AFIAK, the ball has always had to hit the rim or go in to be a legal FT.

They just took the word backboard out of the rule indicating when players could enter the lane. It is a minimal change as the time gap between it hitting the board and either hitting the rim and going in, or simply missing altogether would be very small.

[Stat-Man]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

You've both misunderstood my post....

I was saying that it used to be that the ball hitting the backboard ended the FT restrictions on entering the lane, not that it made the FT legal. AFIAK, the ball has always had to hit the rim or go in to be a legal FT.

In the summer of 2014, the rule changes for the coming season included a change that allowed the (up to) six players in marked lane spaces to enter on release of the free throw try. A quick check of this year's rules (barring any errors that NFHS has corrected) shows:

• The shooter and players behind the arc still have to wait for the ball to hit the rim or backboard.
• Anyone in one of the six lane spaces cannot enter the semicircle until the ball hits the ring or enters the basket

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Stat-Man

• Anyone in one of the six lane spaces cannot enter the semicircle until the ball hits the ring or enters the basket

This is where the change was. Previously, those 6 players could also enter when the ball hit the backboard.