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Old Tue Feb 01, 2011, 10:39pm
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Originally Posted by mikwilmot View Post
Lets say a ball handler has the ball and dribbles toward their basket and sees a trap defense of some kind. Can they put two feet in the front court and the ball in the back court and straddle the mid court line? While straddling can they retreat to the back court if the defense runs at them?
Are you an official? If so, look at your backcourt rule.

The answer is yes, a player can do this. When a dribbler is moving from BC to FC, he maintains BC status until both feet and the ball have entered (by touching) the FC, consecutively in consecutive any order.
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