Shoots at Wrong Basket and is fouled

[jmaellis]

Originally Posted by NewNCref

you know, sometimes when I see posts, I wonder if people have intentionally put them up to try and stump other people. I know weird situations happen sometimes, but honestly, I rarely see this kind of play happen, especially not as much as it shows up. Actually, I've never seen this play happen, but 5 times in a year seems like a lot.

It happened to me just this past weekend (little kids game). In my game the kid shooting at the wrong basket didn't get fouled. As it was happening I was wondering what I was going to do if she did get fouled. As it turns out what I would have done is not what should have been done.

When I got home I just ran a search and found a thread with an answer to my question. These type of odd plays may happen more often than expected. It just might be that the newbies don't know how to use all the features of the board to get the answers they are looking for.

[mplagrow]

In about 600 games that I've done, I've seen the foul on the shot at the wrong basket once. But we see it discussed here so many times I thought it was a pretty textbook call!