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2. Hack-a-Shaq - Wikipedia

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   Committing repeated intentional personal fouls is a longstanding defensive strategy used by teams that are trailing near the end of the game. [7] Basketball, unique among major world sports, permits intentional fouling to gain a strategic advantage; in other sports, it is considered an unfair act or professional foul.

3. Foul (basketball) - Wikipedia

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   A personal foul is the most common type of foul. It results from personal contact between two opposing players. Basketball features constant motion, and contact between opposing players is unavoidable, but significant contact that is the fault of illegal conduct by one opponent is a foul against that player. Most personal fouls are called ...

4. Flagrant foul - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, the NFHS rulebook, which governs high school play, defines flagrant fouls in Rule 10: Fouls and Penalties. The word "flagrant" itself is defined in Rule 2: Definitions ; 2-16c calls it "a foul so severe or extreme that it places an opponent in danger of serious injury, and/or involves violations that are extremely or ...

5. Personal foul (basketball) - Wikipedia

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   In basketball, a personal foul is a breach of the rules that concerns illegal personal contact with an opponent. It is the most common type of foul in basketball. A player fouls out on reaching a limit on personal fouls for the game and is disqualified from participation in the remainder of the game.

6. Flop (basketball) - Wikipedia

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   In FIBA play, the penalty is a technical foul that counts as one of two towards ejection. National Federation of State High School Associations basketball rule 10.6.f of 2012–13 specifically defines "faking being fouled", in the judgment of an official, as unsportsmanlike conduct subject to penalty of a technical foul. However, as there is no ...

7. Glossary of basketball terms - Wikipedia

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   The NBA classifies these types of fouls as flagrant-1 and flagrant-2; NFHS (high school) uses flagrant personal foul and flagrant technical foul; NCAA men's basketball uses both sets of terms interchangeably; and FIBA and NCAA women's basketball instead use unsportsmanlike foul and disqualifying foul (which roughly correspond to the two North ...

8. Portal:Basketball - Wikipedia

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   Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the ...

9. Four corners offense - Wikipedia

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   The four corners offense, also known as the four corner stall [1] or the four corners delay offense, [2] is an offensive strategy for stalling in basketball, primarily used in college basketball and high school basketball before the shot clock was instituted.