Thread: Throw-in spot
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Old Thu Aug 11, 2011, 02:07pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by bob jenkins View Post
there are two ways to violate -- fail to release the ball on a try and fail to have the ball hit the rim. Your backcourt play is the first, so the inbounds spot is in the (old) backcourt. The try-horn-miss scenario is the second, and that's not a violation until the ball misses the rim, so that's the spot of the violation.
I don't see it as two ways to violate....it is one compound way.

A team just has to release a try that hits the rim. If they never release the try, they've certainly not released a try that hit the rim.
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