Continuous Motion
A problem fans, players, coaches,
and officials get into is differentiating between the common foul. Is it a foul
where a player was in the act of shooting and deserves foul shots or is it a
foul while a player was just in possession of the ball and the ball should be
given back to the team who was in possession of the ball at the closest
designated throw-in spot.
Point 1- Continuous motion applies to a try or tap for
field goals and free throws, but it does not
apply unless a defensive player fouls the offensive player who has begun his
"habitual throwing movement" which begins when the offensive players
starts his/her normal shooting motion and ends when the ball has left his/her
hand.
Point 2- If a
defensive player fouls after the offensive player has started a try for goal, the offensive player is allowed to
finish his/her habitual arm movement, and the player pivoting or stepping when
fouled, he/she finish the usual foot or body movement while holding the ball.
These privileges are only given when the habitual
shooting motion is started before the foul occurs and before the ball is in
released from the offensive player's hands.
Point 3: If
an teammate fouls after the ball handler has started his/her try for the basket
but before the ball is in flight it is not considered continuous motion. The
ball becomes dead immediately.
For more information the rule can
be found in the NFHS Rule Book, Rule 4 Section 11
Point 1 makes it clear that for
continuous motion to have significance there must be a foul called on the
defensive team. In Point 1 and Point 2, the rule book makes it clear that if a
player is fouled he/she is allowed to finish the habitual throwing motion or
allowed to continue through the contact with the usual foot or body movement.
As you can see in the clips, when
a player makes a drive to the basket and he/she picks up his/her dribble before
contact occurs, the player should be allowed to finish the play. In “play 1”
you can see that the girl was hit on the arm while she picked up her dribble
and although she made an attempt to shoot the ball even though she no longer
had the ball in her hands she was awarded two free throws because had started
her habitual shooting motion.
In “play 3,” you can clearly see
that the girl picked up her dribble and then made contact with the defensive
player. The official in this instance ruled incorrectly when he waved off the
basket; because the girl gathered the ball before the contact she has the right
to legally finish the play.
“Play 4” is a little tougher to
determine, from our angle we see that number 11 on black commits a foul on
white number 34. If the official is calling the foul on black number 11 then it
should be considered a shooting foul because when the contact occurs white is
starting his habitual shooting motion. However, if the official under the
basket is calling the foul on black number 14 then an argument can be made that
the foul could have occurred before the shooting motion was started.
Since we do not know who the
official called the foul on we will just focus on what we see, and that is
number 11 black fouling 34 white who was in the act of shooting.
Here’s one final video. The
quality is a little bad but I like because really drives home the importance of
knowing what continuous motion really is.
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