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Originally Posted by Altor
Doesn't Rule 9-9-1 require the offense to be the last to touch the ball in the front court for there to be a violation? As such, I don't see how situation #2 is a violation. As you said, the front court is in bounds. The last player to touch the ball was out of bounds.
(full disclosure: basketball layman, just looking for clarificiation)
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No. The rule doesn't require that the offense touch the ball IN the front court, just that they be the last to have touched the ball when the ball was in the frontcourt....that touch may have been elsewhere.
When the ball bounced in the frontcourt, who was the last to have touched it? A1.