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Originally Posted by Shades of Gray
Thanks for the replies but I am still having trouble trying to understand why this should be a backcourt violation in the example I described.
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I'm sure that you agree / know that if a player is in the FC holding the ball and then touches the BC, that it's a violation. (Right?)
So, your play:
Player holds ball straddling division line -- Player and ball are in BC (when a player is touching both BC and FC, the player is in BC).
Player lifts BC foot -- player and ball are now in FC (the "three points" rule applies only to a dribbler -- not to a player holding the ball; if a player is only touching the FC, s/he's in the FC).
Player places foot on floor in BC -- player and ball are in BC.
So, it's a violation.
Note that if the player "drags" his / her BC foot (as you ask), that the second step above hasn't happened -- the player has remained in the BC.
So, it's a violation.