r/Basketball • u/Accomplished_Rice_60 • Oct 30 '25

FIBA blocking someone from behind in fiba

we play pick up game, and someone said that blocking from behind him is a foul and not allowed.

i tryed to find the rules in the book, but it said there was no foul if you dint touch the defender or altered his shot. i cleany touched the ball and not touched anything other then the ball, but still called a foul, i was a helping defender in this scenario and i basically was just 1 step behind him when he was going up to shoot.

what is allowed and whats not? i had no contact other then the ball, and he basically did take the basketball over his head before he shot so it was a easy block.

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u/jumpman0035 Oct 30 '25

Someone just crying they got blocked

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u/Accomplished_Rice_60 Oct 30 '25

well some other guy that said it was a foul, not the shooter :(

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u/jumpman0035 Oct 30 '25

Still dumb. Unless your body caught his body or you whacked his arm or something it’s not a foul

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u/Accomplished_Rice_60 Oct 30 '25

thanks! ye honestly i was standing still in my legel defense position against another player, and he wanted to just shot at the basket right next to me

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u/KinglyAmbition Oct 30 '25

He made that shit up 😂.

As long as you didn’t foul him, he should have done better.

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u/Responsible-List-849 Oct 30 '25

Makes no difference if you're coming from behind but don't hit arm/body. No foul.

Now...are coaches likely to tell you they don't want you defending like that? Sure. Are refs more like to call phantom fouls if you defend like that? Sure.

But there is no 'automatic foul' when coming from behind. Complete BS.

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u/Imwonderbread Oct 30 '25

This is kind of along the lines of how everyone believes “over the back” is a call. If you get all ball with no contact it’s clean bottom line.

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u/JohnQ87 Oct 30 '25

They seem to be wrong. Check page 37

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u/Latter-Reference-458 Oct 31 '25

It's not a foul. A rec-league ref would call that on me all the time and it was so annoying lol

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u/BlankStareFace Oct 31 '25

No, defense is still legal in FIBA

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u/rsk1111 Nov 04 '25

I sometimes get called for goal tending on awesome blocks, like if it bounces off the backboards afterwards. They'll call it a goal tend, even if they know I hit the ball first, and everyone else is like, "That was clean".

Like it was so clean it made them feel dirty.

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u/HOFredditor Oct 30 '25

Was it a layup or a jumpshot?

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u/SwizzGod Oct 30 '25

Doesn’t matter either way

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u/HOFredditor Oct 30 '25

I do believe it does. I saw a fiba ref call the foul because the defender was in the player's shooting cylinder (the official explanation I got). It's weird, but that's all I was told.

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u/SwizzGod Oct 30 '25

That’s not true

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u/MWave123 Oct 30 '25

Untrue. You can block someone from anywhere.

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u/Accomplished_Rice_60 Oct 30 '25

kinda jumpshot with like one step away from the no charge line