Pre-game this play...

[ronny mulkey]

How would you pre-game or handle this play if it occurred during your game?

3 man crew

1st situation: Trail is on ball as it is dribbled (no closely guarded count) or passed below the free throw line extended on the C side of the court. Trail goes off ball and begins to closed down as L begins rotation. Trail notices ball bounding toward the division line and it is clear that it is going backcourt. Trail and L abort the rotation. The C is not giving a deflection signal. The ball is not contested out near the division line. The trail has no clue what propelled the ball backcourt. What does the trail do if the offense reaches the ball first in the backcourt? Call a violation? Or, play on and let the C call the violation, if any?

2nd situation: Same as above except this time opponents are racing to the ball out near the division line. The ball is touched first in the backcourt by the offense. Now, the trail still doesn't know how all this got started and the C doesn't know what happened out near the division line. How do you get these 2 pieces of the puzzle together? Put a whistle on it and talk about it? Play on and talk about it at halftime?

Mulk