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Old Tue Dec 20, 2016, 05:19pm
Nevadaref Nevadaref is offline
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[QUOTE=Camron Rust;995356]
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Originally Posted by Rob1968 View Post
The ball maintains frontcourt status while in the air, and so, when the team A player, standing in backcourt is first to touch the ball, that player becomes the last to touch the ball while it has frontcourt status, and in the same instant, he/she is the first to touch the ball when it obtains backcourt status.
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The rule requires that A be the last to touch the ball BEFORE it returns to the backcourt. "Before" is a very clear word. Touching it in the backcourt is not touching it before touching it in the backcourt.
Yep, I tell people that something which occurs simultaneously with something else certainly didn't happen before it. That usually ends the discussion.
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