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Originally posted by rainmaker
Of course, it takes some explaining. Everyone keeps thinking we should be clearing the bottom slots, next to the basket. And I had one coach get sort of snippy about it. But basically, it's been good.
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Thursday night at our first summer league game, it was me explaining to the officials! When I first heard of the rule change, I remembered a fast-break play out of opponents' free throws that I learned at a clinic. I never used it in the past because it requires putting two players at midcourt, and if I did that under the old rule, we'd give up too many rebounds off the misses. So we walk through the new play at the school before we head off to summer league. The first free-throw lineup, we just put our two in the two required spaces nearest the end line and our point guard in the third spot up on one side. Of course, the opponents fill up four other spots with the rest of their team and we have no one to box two of them out. I try to explain it on the fly but the officials are looking at me funny. At halftime I told them about the new rule, and the one said, "I'm sure we'll find out about the new rules soon."
When and how does the info get disseminated in your area? I want to play in summer league by the same rules we will play by in the season--the purpose of summer league is preparation!