Technical Fouls
By Clarence Woody, Clinician
Flagrant Fouls
Flagrant fouls can be classified into three categories:
- Contact during a live ball
- Contact during a dead ball
- Unethical behavior
A flagrant foul can be a personal foul or a technical foul. It can also be a double personal or a double technical. It cannot be a common foul or a player control foul. A flagrant personal foul is contact during a live ball that is severe and excessive. It can also be contact that is extreme in nature.
A flagrant technical foul is contact during a dead ball that is extreme in nature, or contact that is severe and excessive. A flagrant technical foul can also be unsporting behavior that is extreme in nature or unethical.
Flagrant Foul Penalties
- Flagrant technical foul: Two shots and the ball at the division line away from the table. The shooter is any player or substitute.
- Flagrant personal foul: Two shots and the ball at the spot of the foul. The shooter is the offended player or his substitute if injured or disqualified.
- Flagrant double technical fouls: Continue the game using the alternating possession arrow. The ball is taken out of bounds at the division line opposite the table.
- Flagrant double personal fouls: Resume play with the alternating possession arrow.
Administrative Technicals ("CARS")
Changes, Additions, Rosters, Starters
- Not getting the starting lineup in on time, or not specifying the starters
- Six players on the court
- Excessive timeouts
- Use of laster pointers by coaches or team members
Technicals on Substitutes
- without reporting to the scorers
- without being beckoned by an official
Technicals that Must be Caught Before the Ball Becomes Live
- illegal numbers
- illegal uniforms
- changing the starting five
- excessive timeouts
Technicals that Must be Caught when the Infraction Occurs
- substitute whose name is not in the book coming into the game
- identical number
Player Technicals
- Grasping the basket
- Dunking a dead ball
- Attempting to dunk a dead ball
- Intentionally striking or slapping the backboard
- Placing a hand on the backboard to gain an advantage
- Leaving the court for an unauthorized reason
- Delay of game
- Goaltending a free throw