1 Pt. Safety--Anything Similarly Rare in Basketball?

[Bad Zebra]

I was going to mention a 5 point play I had last season (or maybe two years ago) but rockyroad beat me to it. The other occurence I had was a game where the winning team in a V-boys game I did several years ago did not attempt a single free throw. I didn't realize it until reading about it in the newspaper the next day.

[Freddy]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

...did not attempt a single free throw....

I saw that in a large-school state tournament semi-final game last year in our state. I even went over the video of the entire game to see what our officials missed in an attempt to see why no free throws were ever shot, and they didn't miss a call on any drive or attempted shot. This normally hot-shooting outside shooting team never attempted any drives to the hoop, and on a terrifically cold-shooting low-foul count day they lost badly.
Not necessary an "obscure rule" story, but significantly rare, nonetheless.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

I was going to mention a 5 point play I had last season (or maybe two years ago) but rockyroad beat me to it. The other occurence I had was a game where the winning team in a V-boys game I did several years ago did not attempt a single free throw. I didn't realize it until reading about it in the newspaper the next day.

I guess it didn't matter that you didn't call it both ways.

[maven]

Multiple foul.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by maven

Multiple foul.

Actually, I think that happens in almost every every game, we just don't call it.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Actually, I think that happens in almost every every game, we just don't call it.

Then actually calling a multiple foul would be the one point safety.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Then actually calling a multiple foul would be the one point safety.

There is a difference between something unusually that almost never happens and something that could be called relative often but we choose not to call it.

[Mark Padgett]

Had this happen a few years ago in a 6th grade boys rec game. A1 shoots a 3 and he is pushed hard in the back by B1 on the shot. The shot goes in. My partner calls an intentional on B1. Coach B yells at B1 for what he did and throws his clipboard onto the court. WHACK! I call it. A1, who is not hurt, makes his two for the intentional, then makes the two for the technical. Coach B requests and is granted a TO and during it, his AC says something to my partner and WHACK! again on the AC this time. We come out of the TO and A1 shoots the FTs for the T on the AC and makes both.

The kid scored nine points in about 2 seconds going off the clock (during his initial shot). Not only that, when team A inbounded the ball after the T he took a 3 right off the inbound pass and it just rolled out. That would have given him 12 points in about 5 seconds. And no - he didn't get fouled on the shot - that really would have been something.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

There is a difference between something unusually that almost never happens and something that could be called relative often but we choose not to call it.

Difference? Yes. But one thing that I know for sure is that if I decide to charge a multiple foul in one of my games that it would certainly surprise the heck out of my partner, the entire table crew, all the players on both teams, all the coaches on both teams, all of the fans from both teams, the policeman in the corner, the concession stand workers, and as soon as my partner got to his smartphone, it would surprise the heck out of the 325 officials on my local board.

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

I guess it didn't matter that you didn't call it both ways.

You'd think...the real odd part was that neither coach ever mentioned the foul count or complained. That's probably why we never realized it until the next day.