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Originally posted by Bart Tyson
All conferences i work the supervisors say No player control until the player possess the ball with both hands or clearly dribbles. batting the ball to the floor to gain control is not a dribble.
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Bart, this is true, but irrelevant to Hawk Coach's point. What he explained was that you don't have to have player control in order for there to be team control.
Once player control is established, that player's team has "team control" until either: a) a shot is taken, b) a player from the other team gains control, or c) play is stopped by the officials.
So in the play that we're discussing, perhaps the Purdue player had control (that gives Purdue team control), then lost the ball or it was tapped away by the defense (no control by the defense, so it's still Purdue team control), then was tapped into the backcourt by a Purdue player (still Purdue team control, even if the player who tapped it didn't actually have control), then a Purdue player was first to touch it in the backcourt. Now we have a violation.
Team control can exist without player control, and only team control (not player control) is necessary for a backcourt violation.
The elements of a backcourt violation are (once again):
1) Team Control
2) Frontcourt status
3) Offensive player last to touch the ball
4) Offensive player first to touch the ball in backcourt.
Did I get that list right?
Chuck