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Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This (The Eurythmics, 1983) ...
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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
Actually, it is in mine. The NFHS changed the wording of its FT lane-space violation rule in response to an inquiry from my state interpreter. The impetus was that the action you describe, a player in a marked lane-space losing his balance and placing a hand on the court inside the FT lane without moving his feet, happened to me about a dozen years ago while I was working a HS contest ... the rule only restricted the movement of a player’s foot ... a player could legally do push-ups with his hands and body extended into the lane as long as he kept his feet in the marked lane-space. He even got out the NFHS rules book and consulted the actual text. The rule was changed to contacting the court a year or two afterward.
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Originally Posted by BktBallRef
So if a player falls face first into the lane but his feet don't break the plane, you aren't going to call a violation?
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Bingo. This is what I was talking about. I knew that I didn't dream it.
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Last edited by BillyMac; Fri Jul 30, 2021 at 11:33am.
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