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Old Tue Apr 08, 2003, 06:41am
bob jenkins bob jenkins is offline
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Originally posted by ChuckElias
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Originally posted by bob jenkins
If you read it the way others seem to be reading it, every end line throw in after the first basket by each team would allow the end-line to be run, and that's clearly not true.
I don't think so, Bob, b/c even the badly worded rule from this year's book says that they retain the privilege only on the "ensuing" throw-in. So it doesn't apply to every throw-in after the first basket. It only applies to the throw-in that comes immediately after the throw-in which customarily follows the score. That's not the clearest sentence I ever wrote, but I hope you get the drift.

Chuck
Ensue -- to follow as a result or consequence.

Thus, "ensuing throw-in" is the throw in that's a result of a violation or foul. And, if that throw in is on the end-line, well, ...

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