Download (Basketball) Personal and Team Fouls and more Lecture notes Physical Activity and Sport Sciences in PDF only on Docsity! In the sport of basketball. There are several types of fouls players can incur for violationg the rules of the game. One of the most common types is a personal foul, which counts as both an individual player foul and a team foul. What is a Personal Foul? -its calls on any player that makes illegal physical contact with another player on the court using any part of their body to impede their movement. Whether it is on purpose or accidental. Personal fouls are taken very seriously and will lead to loss of ball possession or a certain number of free throws, depending on who was fouled and whether they were shooting during the foul. -A personal foul can be called on any of the following: Holding Whether you are in a defense or offense team, using your hands to interfere your opponent’s freedom of movement Illegal Screen A player who is setting the screen still moves when the defense team’s player makes contact with him or her. Illegal screen is a type of blocking where the defender is prevented from moving around the screen. Penalties If a player gets called for a personal foul on the player that is shooting the ball, they can get up to three free throws. This is called shooting foul, and the shooter earns a certain number of free throws according to the location of the shooter at the time of the foul. - one free throw attempt if the personal foul is on the defender and there is a successful field goal or free throw on the play. - two/three free throw attempts if the personal foul is on the defender and the offensive player is in the act of shooting an unsuccessful field goal. - one free throw attempt plus a penalty free throw attempt if the personal foul is on the defender and the offensive player is not in the act of attempting a field goal if the penalty situation is in effect. Charging This is an offense team’s foul. One of the offensive team’s player runs into a defending team’s players who has already established his or her position. Blocking Once the game or practice is on, a player tries to position his or her body in a way to prevent the opponent from getting ahead. Blocking is mostly done by the defense team players.
