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Originally posted by bob jenkins
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Originally posted by assignmentmaker
The following protocol appears to work just fine for BktBallRef's Backcourt Quiz:
1- Team A must have team control.
2- The ball must have attained frontcourt status.
3- A player from team A must be the last player to touch the ball before it
enters the backcourt.
4- A player from team A must be the first player to touch the ball after it
enters the backcourt.
but how might it be apply in the following situation?
The ball is being passed among teammates on Team A in their front court. B1 tips a pass such that the ball flies up and over the backcourt. A1 steps into the backcourt and catches the ball before it hits the floor. Backcourt or not, and why?
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1) Yes
2) Yes
3) NO (B was last to touch)
4) Yes
No BC violation.
Sometimes people get confused thinking that this play is the same as "A1 catches the ball while standing outr of bounds." That's a violation on A1 because of a specific statement in 7-2-2. No similar statement exists for the BC rule.
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#3 in your answer is indeed worthy of capital letters. This is another case, in my view, where several rules are brought into play by one physical act, and there is no generalization to guide their application.
Until recently, when a jumper caught a jump ball, the opponents (call them Team B) got the arrow and ball, on the theory that, first, the jumper had controlled the ball (arrow to Team B), then the jumper violated by virtue of having the ball (ball to Team B).
For whatever reason, perhaps becuase the penalty seemed unduly onerous, the theory was changed: a jumper who catches the jump ball now violates the terms of the jump ball by virtue of catching it (and the hell with control) - ball to Team B, arrow to Team A.
In the 'backcourt' situation under consideration here, with respect to:
"A player from team A must be the last player to touch the ball before it enters the backcourt"
the ball has frontcourt location until A1 (who happens to have backcourt location) touches it: the ball does not 'enter the backcourt' until it touches A1. A case can be made that A1 is both the last player to touch the ball before it enters the backcourt and then the first player to touch the ball after it enters the backcourt. I mean, where was it when A1 first touched it?
The backcourt violation rule language doesn't make clear that it's the player's location, and not the ball's, that is the dominating criterion.
That being said, I would call this the way you would. It 'looks' reasonable.