[Barry C. Morris]

Cornellref,

Here's an explanation of why these calls were wrong. I hope that you learn from the mistakes of others and this will help you out:


Situation #1 - In this case, the backcourt violation was called during a throw-in. Exception # 1 to the backcourt violation exludes this call during a jump ball or a throw-in. This should have been a no call.

Situation # 2 - This should have been a backcourt violation. All four elements were present. The ball was in A's team control. The ball had achieved frontcourt status. The ball was last touched by A1 and the ball was first touched in backcourt by team A.

Situation # 3 - In this situation, A1's dribble never ended because he never held the ball. It simply bounced off his knee and was continued a few feet away after he chased it down.

Situation # 4 - This play should have been a travel. A1 achieved player control by catching the rebound. When he touched something other than hand or foot to the floor, TWEET!

Situation # 5 - This play is funny because Mark's partner even misapplied the rule he was getting wrong already. After a made basket, the opponent may pass along the endline to another teammate and / or teammates as long as the five second count doesn't expire so there shouldn't have been a violation here. If it had been a designated spot throw-in, only the thrower can be off the playing floor, the violation would have occurred as soon as the teammate stepped out of bounds, not when he caught the pass from his teammate.

Situation # 6 - We don't judge intent in this case. If the player reaches across the boundary line and touches nothing, we issue a warning the first time and a technical the second time. If the player touches the ball, we issue a technical without warning. If the player hits the opponent, we call an intentional foul.

Situation # 7 - In the final situation, the time for B1 to request a timeout had passed because the ball was at the disposal of team A. The requested timeout should have just been ignored. There is no such thing as a technical for requesting a timeout when it's not the proper time.