Jump Ball - Start the game (Video)

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by Raymond

It's a violation. How come there has not been a point of emphasis yet to get us to call it correctly?

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Ooh, ooh, I know! Because it is monumentally inconsequential.


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[Raymond]

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

Ooh, ooh, I know! Because it is monumentally inconsequential.


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Or because that's not the INTENT of the rule and it's just never been addressed because no one has ever called it. My point from the beginning.

I guarantee you if we all spent the rest of the season calling the violation as written, the next year the rule would be changed so that restriction would end when the tossed ball is touched.

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[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Raymond

... rule would be changed so that restriction would end when the tossed ball is touched.

Good, so at least you agree that there should be a point in time when this restriction ends and that this violation should be enforced as a newly written rule?

So under this new wording, it would be a violation for one jumper to cross the division line after the toss but before tap (which can only legally be tapped after it has reached its highest point)?

So the NFHS intended this restriction to end a few seconds before the present wording?

That's what we've been quibbling about in this thread, a few seconds?

Well, at least BigCat came up with the correct interpretation of the rule as it exists right now, before any NFHS changes due to a new intent interpretation.

During a jump ball a jumper ... is in the proper half of the center restraining circle ... which is farther from his/her basket. The jump ball end(s) when the touched ball contacts one of the eight nonjumpers, an official, the floor, a basket or backboard.

We can all agree that this is the present wording, right?

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Good, so at least you agree that there should be a point in time when this restriction ends and that this violation should be enforced as a newly written rule?



So under this new wording, it would be a violation for one jumper to cross the division line after the toss but before tap (which can only legally be tapped after it has reached its highest point)?



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I never said the restriction should not end at some point. Common sense tells us the restriction should end when the tossed ball is touched, because many times a jumper lands on the other side of division line. Common sense tells us that's how we are already adjudicating this play, as nobody in this forum has ever called that a violation.

One paragraph. Anything past that is you having a conversation with yourself.



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