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Thanks for doing some grunt work for all officials. If your emails result in a clarification of 9-9-3, that will be a good thing for everyone.
I think that you should send a follow up email that includes the explanations of these plays that BktBallRef and I wrote in that other thread I referred to you. It seems that Mary didn't grasp some of the problems with the wording of the current rule. Her answer to #4 is indicative of that. She seemed to fail to notice that the player is jumping from his backcourt to his frontcourt, not the other way around, in that play and thus clearly is not covered by the wording of 9-9-3.
Also there seems to be a typo in the paragraph that begins with EXPLANATION.
"...a defensive player would then commit a violation if he caught the tipped ball while airborne after jumping from the backcourt, securing the ball in midair and landing in the backcourt."
Shouldn't that be frontcourt?
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