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Old Wed Feb 26, 2020, 05:14pm
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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Before My Time ...

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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. View Post
When I played in the mid and late 1960s it was "wait until the Ball hit the Backboard or Ring" and it was like that when I started officiating in 1971, or that is what I seem to remember.
Wait? So you're saying that for players in marked lane spaces, the order of changes went from hit (in ancient times), to release, back to hit, and then back to release?

Too bad your good friend Jimmy Naismith passed away or you could ask him.

How about a séance? Or a Ouiga Board?

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