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Old Thu Aug 12, 2021, 09:30am
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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Three Point Rule ...

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Originally Posted by JRutledge View Post
All I am saying is if the player "dribbled" off his leg that is touching the FC (meaning he is in the FC by rule).
True, the player is in the frontcourt, but the "three point rule" says that during a dribble, the ball must be dribbled onto the frontcourt to gain frontcourt status, and it never was.

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Originally Posted by JRutledge View Post
... there appears to be some kind of deflection that makes the ball go into the BC.
Maybe, not clear how the ball goes "backward". That being said, a "self deflection", while an interrupted dribble, is still part of a dribble (by rule definition the dribble never ended) and an interrupted dribble has the exact same relevance as a "regular" dribble to the "three point rule", so the ball never touched the frontcourt, thus a legal play.

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... if the dribble hit the floor, then they must have all 3 points to be in the FC first, which I am not sure happened here.
Agree. All three points never got into the frontcourt. Legal play.
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