Clapping/Yelling

[Oz Referee]

Originally Posted by ajs8207

During A1s shot, B1 yells or claps to try to distract A1. What do you have? Nothing? Technical? This has happened in a few games recently I have done. I have done nothing, but I thought it was wrong. What would you all do if this happened?

This was a point of emphasis for FIBA referees about 8 years ago (don't have my books handy). We were instructed to stop the game and give a warning to all players on the first occurance and then issue technical fouls for subsequent occurances.

IMHO players that do this are cheating. Even if it is not sepcifically mentioned in the rule book that you use, I believe that is certainly against the spirit of competition.


Edit: woops should have read all the responses before posting, ChristianH beat me to it