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Originally posted by CLAY
I was watching a Varsity boys tournament this holiday weekend. I noticed alot of moving screens going on under the basket. Team A runs a play, one of the players of team A gets caught on a screen and runs directly out of bounds under the backboard. He then returns to the court behind the 3pt line in the cornor of the court, receives the ball and drains a 3 pointer. The player of team A ran out of bounds right next to the lead official. No call. They ran this play several times with the player running out of bounds then receiving the ball for the 3pt shot. Still no call. The coach of team B was going nuts. The 3 man team ignored the coach and the violation.
After the game I was able to visit with the officials and asked them about the no call. They responed with, He did not go out of bounds far enough to inpact the play.
I was wondering as I start my varsity season this friday night, does the rules state the limit a player can run out of bounds and still not be considered a violation? I thought the rule stated you must stay inbounds and can not run out of bounds to avoid a 3 second call or to avoid a screen. Please advise, I do not want to get caught with my whistle in my throat. The officals I talked to have been doing varsity basketball for years. I thougt I could learn something from them, but now I am just confused
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The proper call is a "T" because the offensive team is certainly gaining an illegal advantage on this type of play.However, the problem that you could run into here is good ol' association politics. The best thing that you can do is take this one to your local assignor or trainer/evaluator and find out how they want this call made. If they want you to ignore this type of call, as the varsity officials in the game seemed to allude to, well, the best thing to probably do then is to call it the way that they want you too- no matter whether you happen to feel it's right or wrong.