Thread: 3 second rules
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Old Mon Apr 11, 2005, 08:53pm
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Just to be annoyingly, pedantically clear: In the situation you describe, the three-secound count is suspended or ignored when a player in the paint with the ball "dribbles in or moves immediately to try for goal." The count ends entirely when a shot is released. The count does not begin again until it is in team control again, and then it starts with 1 again.

So in a case like yours, the count ends with the shot, and begins anew only when a player from that team secures a rebound. It then ends again when a shot is taken. Ad nauseum.
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