Never Say Always ???

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

10-3-5 PLAYER Technicals: Delay the game by acts such as:
a. Preventing the ball from being made live promptly or from being put in play.

This rule leads me to believe that PLAYER technical fouls may possibly be charged when a delay of game infraction occurs after the first warning for any of the four delay of game situations.

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

It's possibly left over from the time when a T was given only if a warning had been issued for that particular act.

For now, consider it the equivalent of 2-3 and stop obsessing about it.

It has a purpose. The key word is preventing as opposed to delaying.

I actually called it last year (only time in 16 years) when a player, after a made basket, swatted the ball into the 10th row. No delay warning had been called.

The difference is in the magnatude of the action...a delay such as holding the ball for 2-3 seconds or tapping away from the thrower vs. simply making it not available to the thrower at all.