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Old Tue Nov 13, 2012, 01:34pm
rwest rwest is offline
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That's easy

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Originally Posted by Camron Rust View Post
If you want to call this so literally, why are you not calling a violation for the defender leaving the court for an unauthorized reason???
For the same reason we don't call a violation when a defender loses their balance and steps out of bounds. They didn't intend to step out of bounds. Intent is required. In most cases they probably didn't realize they were out of bounds.
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