<< What I would like to know about BBall is this: When you get fouled, how come only sometimes you go to the foul line. From what I can remember, when you get fouled, only if you were attempting to shoot a basket, do you get to go to the foul line and shoot a basket?
How does that work? Cuz in the end minutes of the game, when they foul someone, they always go to the line to shoot two shots. >>
In the NBA, if you are fouled during a shot, you go to the line for two foul shots. Each team gets 4 fouls during a quarter before they are in the penalty on the 5th foul. When in the penalty, any defensive foul results in free throws. There is another way to get into the penalty if you have got enough fouls. Say a team played the entire quarter without a foul, but they want to get into the penalty to force the other team to shoot free throws, they need to get two fouls after the two minute warning to get into the penalty. So getting into the penalty either is 5 fouls, or 2 fouls in the last two minutes (provided they aren't already in the penalty).
<< I thought it was hands on the shoulders for a 20 sec timeout, and the "T" with the hands for a regular timeout. Or maybe I was just imagining things. >>
Those are just the signals for it. A player can call a timeout with the T sign, and have the coach immediately change it to a 20 second, with the hands on the shoulders. The players only responsibility when calling timeouts is to just call timeout, not decide which one to use.