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Old Tue Oct 09, 2007, 11:24am
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by Scrapper1
But as I pointed out, it matches exactly the criteria for the ball gaining out of bounds status. If you're standing out of bounds and you catch the ball, then you caused the ball to be out of bounds.

If you're standing in the backcourt and you catch a ball from the frontcourt, then you caused the ball to be in the backcourt.

I don't really like it either, but I can see the justification.
The only problem with that is that causing the ball to go into the backcourt is not a violation....be being the team that is the last to touch before...and the first to touch after is the violatoin.
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