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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by DownTownTonyBrown
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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
The new POE in this year's rule book states " Too often players are leaving the court for unauthorized reasons. An all-too-common example is an offensive player getting around a screen OR A DEFENSIVE PLAYER by running out of bounds. That is not legal and gives a tremendous advantage to the offense. Officials must enforce the rule that is already in place. It is a technical foul."
Can't get written any clearer than that!
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The POE mentions specifically unauthorized reasons such as getting around a screen.
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The POE also specifically mentions, as I highlighted above, that the offensive player can't go OOB to avoid a defensive player. Isn't that exactly what eventnyc said that the dribbler did in the very first post on this thread? Run OOB to avoid a defender that had the sideline cut off, and then come back in bounds and resume his dribble.? This new POE says that it's a T if you do that. It's also clarifying how the FED wants this type of play called- a T and not a violation. Now, whether very many officials will ACTUALLY call a T under these circumstances is a whole 'nother story.
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So are you saying it's always a T to go out of bounds? I think you're missing the point of the POE entirely. They are not complaining about the player with the ball going out of bounds, since this is already a violation. They are complaining about players that do not have the ball deliberately going out of bounds.
POE's are about issues. Dribbling OOB is not an issue, it's a violation. Nuff said.