Thread: Backcourt??
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Old Thu Mar 22, 2007, 03:15pm
Mark Dexter Mark Dexter is offline
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Originally Posted by Zoochy
We all seem to agree that the exception for back court needs to be clarified. The one thing that is a given in the Rule 9-9-3 (Back Court Exception). The player has to jump from Front Court and catch the ball in the air. Mark Dexter made the statement, “Therefore, no violation - no matter where the player takes off from and lands.” This is incorrect. It does matter where the player takes off from. IT must be from the Front Court.
While it's true that the exception only applies to jumping from FC to BC, scrapper is correct in that jumping from BC and landing in the BC would not be a violation.
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