Opening tip

pmasonf · #1 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 19, 2004, 05:11pm

I saw this recently in a girls high school game and I'm not sure if the ref's call was right. The ref throws up the ball for the opening tip and it goes to a player on team A. A player from team B immediately--and I mean immediately--grabs the ball for a held ball. The ref signalled that the player on team A never had posession and replayed the jump ball. I would have thought that even though the player from team A only had posession for a split second that would have been enough and the ball would go to team B on alternate possession.

BktBallRef · #2 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 19, 2004, 05:14pm

Whether Team A had possession or not is up to the official to decide. We have no way of knowing if he was correct or not.

Bart Tyson · #3 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 19, 2004, 07:41pm

Also the two players who tied it up are the new jumpers.

BigJoe · #4 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 19, 2004, 07:44pm

Good point Bart. I probably wouldn't have thought of that. It would have been like the "old days".

pmasonf · #5 (**permalink**) Tue Jan 20, 2004, 07:45am

New jumpers? That definitely wasn't done as the ref simply redid the opening jump. Interesting. Thanks for the education.

SoFL_Rookie · #6 (**permalink**) Wed Jan 21, 2004, 07:55am

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Originally posted by Bart Tyson
Also the two players who tied it up are the new jumpers.

Good call, ref.

I didn't know that. Right there in black & white in the case book: 6-3-1 Situation C (c).