Clapping/Yelling

[mick]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Officiating in Great Britain, I would guess that you're using FIBA rules. Under FIBA rules this year, it is a technical foul to employ "distracting tactics" without attempting to play defense. I would normally think of this call when a player is beat and simply yells or claps behind the offensive player. But I suppose it's possible to apply it even when the shouting is done in front of the player.

Then it seems that yelling "shot" while attempting to play defense, even if it is not good defense, is not a technical foul.

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by mick

Then it seems that yelling "shot" while attempting to play defense, even if it is not good defense, is not a technical foul.

Quite possibly. I don't know the exact wording of the rule. I was only going by what was posted in a previous thread.

[Adam]

I've done this forever while playing. When there are four other defenders, they need to know when to start boxing out. And yes, it's quite possible they weren't looking at the shooter if they're doing their jobs defensively.

This isn't a technical foul. Basketball ain't golf.

That's completely different, however, than yelling to distract the shooter from behind when you're beat on a break.

[ajs8207]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I've done this forever while playing. When there are four other defenders, they need to know when to start boxing out. And yes, it's quite possible they weren't looking at the shooter if they're doing their jobs defensively.

This isn't a technical foul. Basketball ain't golf.

That's completely different, however, than yelling to distract the shooter from behind when you're beat on a break.

So would you call a technical foul on that?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by ajs8207

So would you call a technical foul on that?

Not unless I thought it was loud enough to risk ear damage to the shooter; or unless I get told by my assigners to call it. But I ain't asking them.

Guess it's not "completely" different. Just a little bit different.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Not unless I thought it was loud enough to risk ear damage to the shooter; or unless I get told by my assigners to call it. But I ain't asking them.

Guess it's not "completely" different. Just a little bit different.

Hey, good backtrack.

You would make a decent politician.

[fiasco]

What about disconcerting from the bench on a FT?

Would you call that a TF?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

Hey, good backtrack.

You would make a decent politician.

That's just the sort of mean-spirited back-stabbing that made Dan go away.

You take that back.