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Originally posted by Maverick
Rule 9-9-1: A player shall not...
"Be the first to touch a ball after it has been in team control in the frontcourt, if he/she or a teammate last touched or was touched by the ball in the frontcourt before it went in the backcourt."
My point is that the last phrase says "before it went in the backcourt" but in our situation the ball never obtained backcourt status until A touched it so it seems to me that our situation isn't explicitly covered by the rules.
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This rule isn't now, never was and also never will be applicable to the situation that you are trying to apply it too. "He/she or a teammate" was
not the last person to touch the ball in the frontcourt before the ball went in the back court. A player on the other team was the last player to touch the ball in the front court before it went into the back court.
Therefore rule 9-9-1 therefore simply DOES NOT APPLY!!!! That's why it
isn't a violation! It also isn't a violation under R9-9-2. Rule 9-9-3 isn't applicable either. To the best of my knowledge, there is
no rule anywhere in the book that would ever make the play we're discussing a violation. If there is one somewhere, again, could someone please cite it for me?
There's no need to re-write this rule either imo. It's written simply enough now.