re: Should basketball coaches be able to decline free throws?

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It's called the off the ball foul rule and it's been in place since the sixties, they just never call it

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They call it all of the time. Go read the rule about it.

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. It only applies to the last two minutes of the game and you get foul shots and the ball, though I think they updated it to allow teams to pick the shooter from anyone now. 

It just never gets called

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It applies all game, but you only get a few throw + the ball in the last 2 minutes. I already posted that in this thread. It doesn't get called much in the last 2 minutes because people foul the ball handler because they know the rules.