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Old Wed Nov 05, 2014, 11:12pm
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Originally Posted by BryanV21 View Post
I'm trying to think of how I'd explain it to a coach.

"During the interrupted dribble the ball gained frontcourt status. When your player touched the ball he had backcourt status, hence the backcourt violation."

Take a poll of every coach in the world and ask for a definition of an interrupted dribble. If I did start to explain this (which is unlikely) I would avoid the use of this term.

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