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[Adam]

I don't think the halves verses quarters issue is all that important either way. While I'd like to see the change, there are others I'd prefer to see if I had to choose.

My number one desired change: Coaches can only request timeout during a dead ball (including after a made basket, when we can spare a moment to glance.) All live ball TO's must be requested by a player on the team in control.

[Raymond]

If a team who did not receive merited free throws scores a field goal before the error is noticed then the correctable period will be deemed to have expired and free throws cannot now be awarded.

[bas2456]

I'd like to see NFHS mirror the NCAA and allow players into the lane on the release of a free throw, rather than waiting for the rim.

Is that actually in the NCAA rules? Or is that one of those things that nobody enforces?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by bas2456

I'd like to see NFHS mirror the NCAA and allow players into the lane on the release of a free throw, rather than waiting for the rim.

Is that actually in the NCAA rules? Or is that one of those things that nobody enforces?

It's in the rules; just like it was in the NFHS rules way back when I played (ca. 1990). The restrictions end on the release; except for the players not along the lane and the shooter, for whom the restrictions end when the ball hits either the backboard or the rim.

[Reffing Rev.]

I personally think the players in the lane on the release is LESS rough than on the rim, and now with the players up a spot should be revisited.

I will never understand what people have against quarters in high school basketball.

[j51969]

Originally Posted by Reffing Rev.

I personally think the players in the lane on the release is LESS rough than on the rim, and now with the players up a spot should be revisited.

I will never understand what people have against quarters in high school basketball.

It's not a huge deal. I think it would add to the natural flow of the game. The coaches have plenty of time-outs to adjust to things as needed. Does anyone currently have that in place in there state? If so, what are your opinions?

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by bas2456

I'd like to see NFHS mirror the NCAA and allow players into the lane on the release of a free throw, rather than waiting for the rim.

Is that actually in the NCAA rules? Or is that one of those things that nobody enforces?

Section 1. Free Throw

Art. 2. After the ball is placed at the disposal of a free-thrower:
...
d. The free-thrower shall not enter the semicircle. The free-thrower shall not leave the semicircle before the try contacts the ring, backboard or when the free throw ends.
e. No player shall enter or leave a marked lane space or contact any part of the court outside the marked lane space until the free-thrower has released the ball.

[Thumper68]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I don't think the halves verses quarters issue is all that important either way. While I'd like to see the change, there are others I'd prefer to see if I had to choose.

My number one desired change: Coaches can only request timeout during a dead ball (including after a made basket, when we can spare a moment to glance.) All live ball TO's must be requested by a player on the team in control.

What was the reasoning behind changing this? I don't really like that ascept of it either. It is also changed in football. Can the players not be trusted to call the timeout at the proper time? If not, how will they learn?

To the OP,
I am not big fan of the huddle/high five @ the free throw line after a FTA.

[Freddy]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Coaches can only request timeout during a dead ball (including after a made basket, when we can spare a moment to glance.) All live ball TO's must be requested by a player on the team in control.

That would at least convey some of the responsibility for communication to the coach and the players where it belongs, rather than saddling the officials, in the heat of the moment with their eyes on the action, with the expectation that they hear, confirm, and acknowledge every request that's given or else they're trying to somehow shaft the team. Just last week I was accused with the words, "There, are you happy? You cost us a possession because you didn't give me a timeout when I asked for it!" (There was no player control at the time).

I've been asking coaches lately to make their TO requests somehow multisyllabic. Like "How 'bout a 60 second timeout here!" Or "We'd like a timeout." Or, "We have possession, how 'bout a timeout." When they stand there and just yell "Time!", that one word request gets lost in all the other terse orders they're barking continuously to their teams all game long. The jury is still out on the experiment.

Just make it easy...only players on the floor may request a timeout. Let the coaches teach their players to keep an eye on them instead of us. Used to be that way back when I started in the late '70's, if I remember right.