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Old Sat Apr 23, 2011, 10:46am
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But the rule does not say player control nor team control to have a 10-second count. It says continuous control.
It says a player or team may not be in continuous control. I'm not sure what's missing.

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And we have the situation where if a team has the ball in the front court and the defense tips the ball into the back court we start the count as soon as the ball attains back court status. That flies directly in the face of what most interpret as to when to start the BC count for throw-ins, doesn't it?
Yes, because currently the required element of team control isn't present until a player controls it inbounds. Under the proposed rule, that will change. Unless they make the required exceptions (I'm assuming they'll model the changes after the NCAA, but you never know).
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