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I'll admit that I'm not as sure about my backcourt violation ruling as I was at first because it appears to me that the Rule Book is ambiguous about this situation; it describes how to rule if a player caused the ball to go out of bounds but not how to rule on who caused it to go to the backcourt (this can be assumed but isn't explicitly stated as far as I can tell) and it doesn't rule on this case where the a player in the backcourt touches a ball that still has frontcourt status but was last touched by the team not in control. I think the "safe" call (the one that wouldn't make either team's coach/fans blow a gasket) would be to let play continue. However, it doesn't appear to me that the Rule Book states explicitly either way.
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