free throw lane issues

[rainmaker]

Originally posted by icallfouls

Beleive me, I can see where everyone is coming from on this, but for this situation when there were no apparent other game management techniques used, the punishment does not fit the crime. Heck yes, send a message, but don't send the wrong message either, that the crew expended all reasonable options before the T, not in this case.

Jim --

I'm not sure you see the picture clearly of the sitch. It appears to me as though

player A stepped across the lane
player B stepped across the lane
then player A stepped back again
player B stepped back again
here, I suspect, ref said, "Hey, guys, enough."
but they both stepped across again
ref then says, "Next spot is it."
player A then stepped across again
Now ref bounces ball, and shooter misses.
then they start stepping back and forth again!

It appears to me that this all happened in one free throw, not over several free throw sets over several minutes.

At what point would you have issued a warning? When would you stop the free throw sequence to track down the captain? Would it make the game better to stop everything and ask the coach to talk to his player? Which coach? When all this action happens so quickly one thing on top of the other, does it make sense to stop everything to get the coach involved? Or were you thinking they had done this several times during several free throw sets? How is the ref forfeiting control to tell the players to stop it and then issuing a T when they don't stop? It seems to me that it's taking control, not giving it up. I don't understand your point of view.