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Old Sun Dec 11, 2011, 02:05am
Rob1968 Rob1968 is offline
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Originally Posted by bob jenkins View Post
+1. We can hope they treat it like the "swinging elbows" that was not called when it was a T, so they changed it to a violation.
Yet, they allow for a "swinging elbows" violation, by the shooter's teammate, to kill a shot - see 9.13.1, which seems terribly inconsistent.
So, if the teammate swings elbows and makes contact, the ball isn't dead until the attempt has ended, but if there's no contact, the ball is immediately dead, and cannot count. Weird!
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