FT positioning question

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Freddy

Seems to me that during technical free throws one team would use it as a timeout, legally gathering in front of its bench, while the other team had to remain behind the division line and missed out on the needed "coach time". With the current rule, each team may do so without penalty.

Methinks you mis-remembered, Freddy. We've never had a rule, NFHS or NCAA, that had different restrictions for opposing teams. See the DeNucci post. He has the correct answer.

In Bob Jenkins' instance, iirc we did hav a rule for regular FT's that allowed players to stand below and a specified distance outside marked lane spaces and then move in at the same time the players in the marked lane spaces were allowed to move in. Didn't apply for technical FT's though.

[Freddy]

J-R is right...partly. I mis-remembered the idea that there was a rule keeping the players behind the division line. My recollection is that everyone assumed that was a rule and, in my ignorance-filled youthful years, I assumed right along with everyone else. In my advanced years I know better know.