jump ball

dave30 · #1 (**permalink**) Tue Mar 07, 2006, 06:24am

another brain freeze! If a player on a jump ball gets his own tip still inside the circle...is it a violation? A referee I was working with said since the ball hit the floor, anybody could get it.

Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. · #2 (**permalink**) Tue Mar 07, 2006, 06:40am

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Originally posted by dave30
another brain freeze! If a player on a jump ball gets his own tip still inside the circle...is it a violation? A referee I was working with said since the ball hit the floor, anybody could get it.

Your partner is correct. Once the ball hit the floor the jump ball had ended.

MTD, Sr.