Foul Trouble - Players who accumulate too many fouls during the course of a game are said to be in foul trouble.
Foul trouble: When a player is close to the limit for personal fouls before being ejected from the game, or a team is nearing the limit in each period after which all fouls become shooting fouls.
Foul trouble -When a player is in foul trouble, he has close to 6 personal FOULS.
Free-throw -A Basketball Phrase used often instead of FOUL SHOT. See FOUL SHOT.
Free-throw line -The line where FOUL SHOTS are taken from.
Foul Trouble: This means that a player has committed 4 or 5 fouls and is close to fouling out of the game.
Basketball Fouls: Foul Trouble
Players who accumulate too many fouls during the course of a game are said to be in foul trouble.
We have had great success getting the Goliaths of the world into major foul trouble. If this doesn't work then I break my own rules and quit playing m-2-m defense.
Foul trouble: (1) Player foul trouble occurs when a player accumulates three or four fouls and is in danger of fouling out. (2) Team foul trouble occurs when a team accumulates four or more team fouls in a quarter and is "in the bonus." ...
To replace a player who is in foul trouble. There are varying philosophies about how many fouls a player must make before he is removed.
I have a formula that I try to teach my players in regard to staying out of foul trouble: "your number of fouls should be less than the number of the quarter you are playing in.
#1, knowing that defender 4 is in foul trouble, chooses the right side and dribbles off the screen set by #4. #2 cuts hard toward the basket, but stops before he gets to the lane if he does not get the pass. He then backs off to the corner.
It gets your opponents in foul trouble and those that like to play tight "D" on people keep trying to guess wheather you about to cross him over or going to fake a crossover and keep driving in same direction.
Tips ...
We like to use the 3 2 matchup zone defense if we are ahead by more than twenty, in foul trouble, or playing against a very weak outside shooting team. In our opinion, the 3 2 zone defense is the hardest basketball zone defense to attack.
Guards have to stop dribble penetration on defense. Dribble penetration is the one killer of all defenses. Allowing penetration will create chaos, lead to foul trouble, and of course easy baskets.
Keep the Dribble Alive ...
Substitute for players who are fatigued, in foul trouble or not fulfilling the game plan. Adjust your rotation to your opponent's lineup.
Not only will they score but, 90 percent of the time, there will be a foul call. They will get three instead of two and your point guard will wind up in foul trouble. Just as any other role on the team, the coach should designate the shot blockers.
In other words, the point guards defend each other, the centers defend each other, etc. There are always exceptions,especially as the game goes on, when foul trouble and other elements become factors.
 See also: Foul, Basket, Ball, Defense, Basketball
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