Thread: Free Throw Fake
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Old Thu Oct 01, 2009, 08:11am
bob jenkins bob jenkins is offline
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Originally Posted by mbyron View Post
If he gets the ball back legally, there's no "preventative officiating" to be done. You can't blow it dead because all the action so far has been legal.
I don't see anything in the case that says the shooter can get the ball back. The case seems to imply that once the ball is dropped and rolls into the lane, it's a violation.

(We had this discussion last year when the change was introduced. No consensus was reached, iirc.)
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