Send the guy to the line for two FTs.>

Have people stopped doing this in basketball?>

The high- arching mid- range shot to deal with some rebound- monster>lurking under the basket seems to be dead as well.

when they were up by 3 with 10 seconds to go?>Send the guy to the line for two FTs.>Have people stopped doing this in basketball?

No, foul them when they're nowhere near the act of shooting;> immediately after the in-bounds pass, for example.

On Mon, 28 Mar, ROM SPACE KNIGHT NURSE wrote:>> I've never seen this, but isn't an intentionallly-miss­ed free throw>> possible? Say you hit the first one but are still down by two with zip>> time left....couldnt you throw it as hard as possible off the backboard>> so it's a long rebound to yourself, hopefully. I know it's no anutomatic>> rebound, but you'd have a better chance at another shot than banking on>> an inbounds steal, aina?>

The intentional miss is something I'd try down two with only one free throw>and little time, but you do HAVE TO HIT THE RIM. That makes it much harder>to pull off. It's fairly often the shooter actually doesn't hit any rim>when trying this, and in that case it's the other team's ball.>

What's even funnier is when the shooter is trying to miss and hits the>thing by accident. I think that's happened a couple times this year and>seems to happen about once a season somewhere in college at least.>

What's even funnier is when the shooter is trying to miss and hits the> thing by accident. I think that's happened a couple times this year and> seems to happen about once a season somewhere in college at least.