Thread: Closely Guarded
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Old Mon Jun 21, 2004, 03:37pm
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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
I really think that you and Dan agreed on the basics all along, but but just got bogged down in the semantics.
At the risk of losing the precious Diet Coke that Dan has promised to buy me, I don't think they were ever in agreement, JR. Your "common sense" interpretation means that the dribbler is closely guarded even if moving away from the basket with his back turned to his own basket (assuming the defender originally had LGP). In this situation, Dan said:

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BTW, if A1 turns his back to B1 & dribbles away from the basket no way in hell I'm going to call 5 seconds.
That doesn't sound like agreement with what you described above.
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