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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef
How would he not have time to react? He can begin his box out when A1 releases the throw. If he is waiting until after the ball is dead you are giving him way too much benefit of the doubt.
What you call "overreaching", I call dead ball officiating and not allowing players to test the line. In my games, that type of dead ball play will only happen once. In fact, in my captains' meetings I tell them there is no reason to knock the free throw shooter off the line, so don't start that mess.
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At this point, I'd forgotten that the OP was actually a live ball foul.
If a player has enough time to realize the ball is dead and gets him anyways, go ahead and T him. (I'd generally read the riot act first, but you're not wrong to skip that part.) If it happens so close to the ball becoming dead that the player cannot reasonably be expected to stop and the contact is the result of a normal basketball play, i.e. not an intentional or technical in its own right, it should be ignored.
Are you suggesting that any contact after the whistle is a technical?
Thu Feb 12, 2015, 09:19am
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