Free Throw Question

[muxbule]

A little confused by your question. If players along the lane cannot break the plane until the ball makes contact with the rim how can a player contact the shooter prior to that?

[jeschmit]

Originally Posted by muxbule

A little confused by your question. If players along the lane cannot break the plane until the ball makes contact with the rim how can a player contact the shooter prior to that?

My apologies... I meant to say after the ball contacts the rim... Does the shooter have different provisions (in regards to contact) when the rebounding action takes place?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by jeschmit

My apologies... I meant to say after the ball contacts the rim... Does the shooter have different provisions (in regards to contact) when the rebounding action takes place?

No differnent provisions, but some teams like to block oout the shooter harder than is needed.

[CMHCoachNRef]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

No different provisions, but some teams like to block out the shooter harder than is needed.

Which is why ALL players have to wait until the ball hits, now....

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by CMHCoachNRef

Which is why ALL players have to wait until the ball hits, now....

When was this not the case?

[CMHCoachNRef]

Originally Posted by Smitty

When was this not the case?

Smitty,
I don't remember the exact year. I do remember that in the late 1980s, you could move on the release -- we had "plays" including setting screens across the lane and up the lane back in the day.

Initially, the changed the rule to indicate that a defender could not "break the plane" of the free throw line to "box out" the shooter. A year or two later, the rule changed to prevent anyone from going into the lane.

If I were to guess, I am thinking that the rule changed in the early to mid 1990s.

Allegedly, the origin of the rule change was that a couple of HS female players sustained torn ACL's as FT Shooters. Today, it makes NO SENSE to me that we are only concerned about "rough play" on rebounds when the shot is taken from 15 feet from the basket, directly in front of the basket with no defensive pressure. I was fine with the "free throw plane" issue -- no different than a jump shooter being undercut even though most FT shooters don't jump.

[Adam]

When I played in the early 90s, we could go on the release.