Tech/Basket Interference

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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

1) That has to be the longest sentence ever written. Anyway....the reason for the tech is to penalize a player for trying to bring attention to himself. The judgement involved is whether the defender was legitimately trying to block the shot or was just whacking the board to make noise. Whether the ball goes in or not is never relevant to the call in any way.

2) Wrong. You can't call a "T" by rule ever on a legitimate attempt to make a block.

See the COMMENT in case book play 10.3.5. The interpretation is exactly the same in NCAA.

My point in 2 was that by rule you can't have BI so if you want to give the kid two points or an attempt at two points because the basket didn't go in, then the only things that is backed by rule is a T. It is your judgement that decides if he slapped the backboard or not to draw attention to himself, so even if you think he made a legit attempt you could tell the coach that he was trying to draw attention, and there would be people agree with you and not.