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Originally posted by mick
Chuck,
It is 7-6-3.
How do I know, ...how does the defender know the released ball is not an inbounds pass.
Should be easy for me to judge, but the defender may have been facing an entirely different direction. Can we really penalize the defender?
(...as if I've ever seen or ever will see this play)
mick
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Mick-
I think this one is easy: yes, we penalize the defense because the rules say we penalize the defense. How does the defender know it's not going in, by paying attention to the direction the ball is going. And I think the reasoning that you can call the delay instead of the T because he had to break the plane first is horse----; the intent of therule is pretty clear that it is a delay warning for breaking the plane
without touching the ball -- any other reading makes the T an impossible option that has no purpose in the rule book.
(I frankly think this is an underutilized tool for breaking a press -- were I coaching against a team with an intense press, I'd put in a play to use the pass and a screen against the man covering the ball on the press. Run that play a couple of times, and then have a similar play where the second man stays in bounds to get the pass when the defender is expecting him to go OOB.)