Fight

[Shooter14]

Originally Posted by BigCat

it is confusing,,,

Yes it is, we talked about it for about 30 minutes and couldn't figure out exactly what the right thing to do would be. What makes it confusing is one team violates worse by having more off the bench, but the other violates worse by having a player participate in a fight.

[BigCat]

Originally Posted by Shooter14

Yes it is, we talked about it for about 30 minutes and couldn't figure out exactly what the right thing to do would be. What makes it confusing is one team violates worse by having more off the bench, but the other violates worse by having a player participate in a fight.

Yes. the team with more off the bench gives up two FTs. the team with less players leaving bench, but some fighting penalizes the coach more. that's how i read it.

[JeffM]

Rule 10, Section 4 Bench Technical:

ART. 5 . . . Leave the confines of the bench during a fight or when a fight may break out.
NOTE: The head coach may enter the court in the situation where a fight may break out – or has broken out – to prevent the situation from escalating.

PENALTY: (Art. 5) Flagrant foul, disqualification of individual offender, but only one technical-foul penalty is administered regardless of the number of offenders. This one foul is also charged indirectly to the head coach. If the head coach is an offender, an additional flagrant technical foul is charged directly to the coach and penalized. When a simultaneous technical foul(s) by opponents occurs, the free throws are not awarded when the penalties offset.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Shooter14

Yes it is, we talked about it for about 30 minutes and couldn't figure out exactly what the right thing to do would be. What makes it confusing is one team violates worse by having more off the bench, but the other violates worse by having a player participate in a fight.

The only real decision is whether or not you shoot free throws for the fight Ts. I think I'd err on not shooting them, because that's the direction I was given many years ago when I had a fight. Try to simplify as much as possible so you aren't walking back and forth shooting free throws when you should get the game moving ASAP.

If you shoot, I'd say your final FTs should be for the player who actually came off the bench to shoot since that seems to have been the last event.

And who in the hell did that bench player fight? That kid deserves extra credit for not fighting back.

[Shooter14]

Originally Posted by Adam

And who in the hell did that bench player fight? That kid deserves extra credit for not fighting back.

Ha. Agree.