Clapping- FIBA- US

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by mutantducky

Has there been any recent changes regarding clapping during a shot in the US? Any thoughts?

Reminds me of the defender trailing an opponent about to make an easy layup yelling, "Miss", or something else, loudly at the shooter. Or, especially in a girls game, a defender yelling, "Dead, dead, dead ...", at a player who has picked up her dribble, just to rattle her chain. If you've officiated long enough then you've observed these situations. In thirty-two years, I've never seen an official call anything in those situations. Maybe it's not "right", but it seems to be considered a barely legal part to the game, at least here in my little corner of Connecticut.