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Originally Posted by JRutledge
Oh the old "face time" mechanic. 
The adjustment was simple, they thought it was more expedient to give the Lead the opportunity to bounce the ball to the thrower themselves. The Lead at one time would bounce the ball to the Trail or Center for all FTs and then they changed it to the Lead doing it on the last FT. I think it was a waste of time and they realized this and changed it. Not much more complicated than that if you ask me. That is what I remember when this change was talked about. I am sure someone much older will clarify the situation. This changed like in my first few years of my career.
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I hated it when we were doing it 
I kind of remember it coming in a stretch of time when they also removed signaling "two" every time a shot went in...which seemed really odd since the 3-point shot didn't come into college until '86-87 and it reached HS a few years after that.
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