Team Control Foul

[ChuckElias]

Originally posted by Oz Referee
Wouldn't this be an unsportsmanlike foul? In FIBA it would have to be called as an unsportsmanlike foul as there is no way that you could argue that A2 was contesting the ball.

Interesting, Duane. But in NFHS rules, unsportsmanlike fouls are by definition non-contact. So this would not be an unsportsmanlike foul. If we used your line of thought -- namely, that the foul could not be a "basketball play", since the ball is not in play -- we could call it an intentional personal foul. I'd like to be around to see somebody call it that way, tho!! And if it were called that way, it's NOT a team control foul, since it's not a common foul.

Therefore, the 2 free throws for A1 are cancelled by the 2 free throws for B2. Team B resumes at the half-way line for the unsportsmanlike.

Again, that's interesting and I can see why you'd do it that way, but that's not how it would be administered in NFHS rules. Unless the fouls happen at the same time (generally speaking), we penalize each foul in the order in which it occurs. So we would still shoot A1's FTs with no one on the line, then give the player from Team B 2 FTs for the intentional foul. Then Team B would get the ball for a throw-in at a spot closest to Team A's foul.