Foul during the first of one & one

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Sharpshooternes

A pet peeve of mine: I hate when the players are wacking each others arms or elbowing (the girls are worse) in the lane prior to the shot. I have found that hollering at them, "No contact before the rim!!" Usually diffuses it before it turns into something like a foul while the ball is live but before the FT is over.

Whatever happened to just saying, "Two" or "One and One" and just giving the ball to the shooter?

If I need to make my presence known, I may say something like, "Easy" and the players magically stop whatever crap they're doing.