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Originally Posted by JugglingReferee
But could you not make a definition that doesn't include establishing "team control".
In other words, the defense's job is to end the offense's {new definition} with the ball. Giving up an offensive rebound failed in that goal.
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If we're going into the land of making up definitions for this concept, you could borrow the concept of phases of play from rugby (and a lesser extent soccer). In rugby, a new phase of play begins with each ruck or muck (similar to downs in football except there is no explicit end or beginning unless there is a scrum).
So, translating this to basketball, each instance of team control would be a phase and each phase uninterrupted by an instance of team control by the opponent would form a possession.
If you used such a definition, then at first thought, yes, each team would have equal possessions. What constructive purpose this might serve escapes me at the moment.