Team Control Signal?

[Stat-Man]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

The new signal will, I think, clear up confusion about why we're not shooting free throws in certain circumstances. People will begin to associate the punch with no free throws they way they currently associate the PC signal. Especially idiot scorekeepers who aren't paying full attention anyway.

I realize that neither argument is entirely compelling. But I've found that better an official communicates, the less trouble he has. Usually.

All I could hypothesize is that alot of NFHS rules trickle down from the NCAA (which gets some trickle down from NBA).

NBA, NCAA-W, and now NF use the punch for TC. (FIBA too, for that matter). It's just a universal way to communicate an off the ball foul*.

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* or a foul during an interrupted dribble for NCAA-W and NF