Jnr. NBL: Zone Defence and Full Court Press Breach Sanction

This sanction is applied for the following reasons:

For Zone defences being played illegally by a team in:

• Under 18 Conference (Quarters 2 and 4)
• Under 16 Conference (Quarters 2 and 4)
• Under 16 Regional
• Under 14
• Under 12 competitions

If a full court press is applied after a team is up by 20 points or more in:

• Under 12 (Mixed and female)
• Under 14 Conference (male and female)
• Under 14 Regional (male and female)
• Under 16 Conference
• Under 16 Regional

The crew chief will call an ‘officials time out’ with coaches and their co-official to the centre circle and give a verbal warning that they must cease playing a zone defence or a full court press, (which ever is applied at the time) and to remind the coach(es) of the potential sanctions that will then be applied.

The coaches will then be given an additional 30 seconds to reinforce this message with their team.

Once play has resumed following the ‘officials time out’ any further breaches of the rule will result in the coach being issued a warning (W) technical foul in the first instance.

Once called the warning technical (W) this will be recorded in the scorebook as a ‘W’ (not a coach ‘C’ or bench ‘B’ technical). The opposition will be given one free throw and then play will resume.

Any further breaches of these rules will result in the coach receiving a technical foul recorded as ‘C’. The opposition will be awarded one free throw.

A coach will not be ejected until they have received two Coach technical fouls ‘C’s on a scoresheet. A ‘W’ technical will not be counted as a formal technical (C) but the opposing team will receive the same one free throw.