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Originally posted by BktBallRef
What's the point in allowing the defender to break the plane after the release if he can't touch the ball? 
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Doesn't really matter. The point is, he can't touch the ball. If I had to guess, the reason for allowing him to cross the plane is so that if his momentum carries him across the line
after the release of the ball, the official is not required to interrupt the play to issue a warning.
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It would seem that this is also the interpretation of many others on this board as well.
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It was also the concensus of many others that failing to step OOB before releasing the putative throw-in onto the court was either a delay of game warning or a do-over. As we all know now, that consensus proved to be incorrect.
You disagreed with me on that one too. . .
