Repeated Lane Violation

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by lpneck

Are you calling a technical foul because the game is turning into an actionless contest, or because one team is committing a violation? It seems to me there is a penalty in place to deal with the violation.

If you want to go the "actionless contest" route, I don't see how you can pick one team over the other when they are both responsible.

The technical foul is for the defense committing intentional violations that turn the game into an actionless contest.

You can't pick the offensive team at all because they are not committing a violation and they are not turning the game into an actionless contest in any way. Au contraire, they are getting the ball back into play quicker by missing than if they had made the FT.There is no penalty in place anywhere in the rules that deals with a missed FT. Having a penalty for that would be the height of ridiculousness.