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Originally Posted by BlueDevilRef
It was still around when I was in school and I'm now 36.
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Really?? I'm almost positive that it hasn't been used since I've been officiating. (I started in '92).
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Can someone enlighten us to what the purpose of it was?
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It's for jump balls. If there was a held ball in the free throw lane, for example, there was no AP arrow, so they had a jump ball. And rather going to center court, they would have the jump ball in the circle around the free throw line.
But the Alternating Possession procedure has been around -- I think -- since I started officiating in '92. So if you had the dotted semi-circle, it was just because your high school was too cheap to re-paint your court.