technical foul question

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Adam

Seems every year we get one or two newer officials wondering if they should shoot bonus FTs when an indirect T is charged to the coach. Similarly, we get the question of whether the indirect foul counts as a team foul towards the bonus. I think that one may actually be more common; but the problem is the same.

Exactly. If it is consistently thought of and talked about as 1 foul that is only noted indirectly to the coach, then all of those problems should disappear.

Looking at it another way, a foul is defined as an infraction of the rules. A coach who gets an indirect T hasn't committed a rules infraction, someone else has.