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If it makes you feel any better, one of my 3 second calls on the NEW defensive team (quick steal up top) happened last year :o
"My badd coach" is all I could say :D Stuff happens, we either learn from it & improve or we dont. I'm still trying to master responding to acts vs reacting to them. |
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Unsporting T. Push in the back, while ball is in flight. Ball hits rim and clearly won't go in. Then Player A1 retaliates and pushes back. So it's #3. T, personal foul, T. So we should have shot 4 free throws plus the ball for Team B. My thinking as I was talking to my partner, was upgrading the personal foul to a T because I felt the push might have been on purpose to get A1 to retaliate. In either case, I wanted to send a strong message to Team A and to Team B that this kind of non sense wasn't going to be tolerated. This is why we went with T, T, T. But we should have administered it 6 free throws, 2 for Team B, followed by two by Team A, followed by 2 for Team B and the ball OOB for Team B. Am I understanding it correctly? Now that I think back on it though, I probably could have deemed it a fight and just DQ both players. That would have sent a much stronger message and much easier to administer :D |
Now that I give it more thought, I'm realizing I'm trying to rewrite the book.
It happened like #3, so we needed to penalize like #3. I can't penalize #5 when it happened like #3. Disregard my previous post. |
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It will not change anything since A, if I'm reading correctly, was over 10 fouls. The same number of shots would be taken either way and B would still be getting the ball after the final T was penalized. Even if A were not over 10 fouls, I'd call it intentional and let A have the 2 shots. Doing so would go a long way towards containing any escalation from either side. |
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Now, all that said, I THINK that the middle foul by B1 SHOULD be a T....not specifically by rule, but by common sense.
At its core, it really was an unsporting act in retaliation for an unsporting act. If the trigger was worthy of a T, the response should be no less. Regardless of the live/dead ball status' effect on contact fouls with regards to them being considered personal or technical, I think that fouls involving contact but in an unsporting manner should simply be T's. So, in the end, I think the fact that you called 3 T's was not really "wrong". ;) If I were in a game with you, and that is what you wanted to do, I wouldn't resist it. |
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I'm not trying to wipe that highlight play for a T that could be had after the entire play is complete. The only way to make sure we dont mess this play up is to practice holding our whistle when these situations present themselves. I understand how it could happen though, its not too common to have a T on the defense in transition witn a scoring opportunity |
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when we toss A1 for his 2nd provides us an opportunity to show we are fair. But, surely you don't suggest that we upgrade a personal to a technical for live ball contact? |
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Now, if in your case, I see A2 flying in from behind ready to grab a rebound, I'll hold another beat. But without an obvious imminent "highlight play", I'll kill it before A2 gets off the floor. :D I'm just not that inclined to worry about highlight plays, but hey, I'm not doing state championship games yet, so when that happens.... :) |
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However, it is often the case that situations that result in live ball contact also include non-contact elements....such as verbal assaults. You could always call a T for that part of the incident and be within the rules. I just don't like the discontinuity in the infraction to penalty mapping....an attempt to contact in an unsportsmanlike manner and a miss being a T while an attempt to contact in an unsportsmanlike manner with contact being personal. I think the rules should be changed to allow T's for unsportsmanlike acts, even if they involve contact during a live ball. |
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Some people find it easier to go on principles rather than enumerated lists of possibilities....I do....and it is a lot easier to learn basic principles than to memorize a million variations of case plays. Yet, some people (not you) insist on a case play for every possibility. Basic principles...
That is all you need to know to resolve all of the above scenarios. |
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I'm probably looking for the easy way out -- or perhaps an aversion to plumbing, as some would say -- but I like the idea of a T and a double foul, assuming the ball was still in flight during A1's and B1's contact. Easy dealing: report the T, report both personal fouls, shoot the free throws, resume at the division line. |
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