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

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Oz Referee

Should have read all the responses before posting, ChristianH beat me to it.

Been there. Done that. Many times. Perhaps you haven't checked out the Forum in a while, meaning that there are probably quite a few threads, including many multi-post threads, to check out. As you're catching up, you spot a post that you absolutely must respond to right away, and after doing so, continue to read some more recent posts in the same thread, to find out that another member has basically posted the same response as you.

[Oz Referee]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Been there. Done that. Many times. Perhaps you haven't checked out the Forum in a while, meaning that there are probably quite a few threads, including many multi-post threads, to check out. As you're catching up, you spot a post that you absolutely must respond to right away, and after doing so, continue to read some more recent posts in the same thread, to find out that another member has basically posted the same response as you.

Thats me to a T (no, not that sort Padge). After probably 12 months of not looking at the forums, there is a lot of stuff to catch up on

[christianH]

Originally Posted by Oz Referee

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.

Hi guys,

so that is when I don't know what to do after a succesful shot. Shall I stop the clock before the throw-in at the endline?

And if the shot is not sucessful, unfortunately I will have to give a T straight away, causing a bit of commotion when the players and the coaches will all ask about my mother and relatives

[SmokeEater]

Yes Christian you are correct on both points!

[Adam]

I still can't believe FIBA is making this a T.

[Oz Referee]

why not? it is clearly unsportsmanlike behaviour, certainly against the spirit of fair competition. As a caoch of mine used to tell his players - how about you actually play defence?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Oz Referee

why not? it is clearly unsportsmanlike behaviour, certainly against the spirit of fair competition. As a caoch of mine used to tell his players - how about you actually play defence?

Maybe we have two different things in mind. I'm thinking of Christian's initial post here, where the defender is shouting "shot" to let his teammates know it's time to box out. We were always told to communicate on defense, and this was one way.
You gonna call a T on a player for shouting "Help" when he gets beat?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Oz Referee

defence

Oh, Oh.

I can't figure out which side of this issue I'm on. I guess that I'm sitting on de fence.

[Oz Referee]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Oh, Oh.

I can't figure out which side of this issue I'm on. I guess that I'm sitting on de fence.

Must be a metric fence that you are sitting on