Jacie
3/10/2008, 07:50 PM
. . . a highschool game in Oklahoma lately.
Is it legal during an Oklahoma highschool basketball game (i.e. not a team foul) for the home fans (as they are the ones usually dominating a gym) to make noise during free throw attempts by the visiting team?
In thinking back to the early 70's I know we used to make all kinds of noise to try and distract the free throw shooter. Skipping forward to the recent past, attending highschool games in the great frozen north of Upstate New York, I observed that crowds of both sides were so quiet during free throw attempts you could hear the players on the court breathing hard during the stoppage of play. When I brought up the idea of students yelling during free throw attempts, similar to what one sees during every college basketball game, I was told it was an automatic foul for the team of the offending fans (as determined by the officials, of course).
Have highschool rules been softened up a bit to protect the players and if so, would this prove to be a detriment to highschool players who managed to make a college team possibly on a statistic (i.e. scoring average) that would be bolstered by a decent free throw percentage only to find that they bricked em when trying to sink one in a gym full of screaming fans instead of the sedate crowds they were used to in highschool?
Is it legal during an Oklahoma highschool basketball game (i.e. not a team foul) for the home fans (as they are the ones usually dominating a gym) to make noise during free throw attempts by the visiting team?
In thinking back to the early 70's I know we used to make all kinds of noise to try and distract the free throw shooter. Skipping forward to the recent past, attending highschool games in the great frozen north of Upstate New York, I observed that crowds of both sides were so quiet during free throw attempts you could hear the players on the court breathing hard during the stoppage of play. When I brought up the idea of students yelling during free throw attempts, similar to what one sees during every college basketball game, I was told it was an automatic foul for the team of the offending fans (as determined by the officials, of course).
Have highschool rules been softened up a bit to protect the players and if so, would this prove to be a detriment to highschool players who managed to make a college team possibly on a statistic (i.e. scoring average) that would be bolstered by a decent free throw percentage only to find that they bricked em when trying to sink one in a gym full of screaming fans instead of the sedate crowds they were used to in highschool?