Backcourt Violation - Mavs Heat

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Originally Posted by roncabalao

"frontcourt/backcourt status is not attained until a player with the ball has established a positive position in either half during a throw-in in the last 2 minutes of the fourth period and/or any overtime period."

What about when a player is out of bounds, then jumps and catches the ball in the air and lands in-bounds? That would be called out-of bounds because the player hasn't established himself in bounds. So, why is this rule any different to the frontcourt/backcourt" rule? The player is in the air and hasn't positively established himself in-bounds or out-of-bounds. I don't really know but, maybe the rule applies differently in this case.

Inbounds/ out of bounds is not FC/BC.

If a player knocks the ball into the BC, does his opponent get the ball? No. But he does if the ball is knocked OOB.

The rule allows Wade to make the play he made, whether you believe us or not. I can assure you we are correct.

Maybe a hand in the back is a foul but,

what about Wade pushing off Terry near the sideline?

Or what about on Game 6, Wade after coming out of a screen threw his arm into Nowitzki's chest and the refs calling the foul on Dirk?

I'm hardly a Mavs fan, but the I'm sorry to say that the refs blew it.

Thanks for the input.

A couple of things for you.

1- Officials miss calls. Officials miss calls against both teams. Remember the ball that Posey stole late in the 4th quarter and was called for double dribbling? By rule, he did not double dribble. He knocked the ball away, caught it, and dribbled once. That's not a double dribble. The perfect game has never been played, coached, or officiated. It never will be.

2- Not all contact is a foul. Wade made contact with Terry but he did not push him off. The fact is Terry was in poor defensive position. Had he worked harder and gotten better defensive position, who knows, he might have been able to draw a foul. As for Nowitzki, it was an ugly play. But again, with lousy position, he got called for a block. How about the screen Nowitzki set on the final shot of the season? For get about it. All contact is not a foul.

3- A foul in basketball in one of the most subjective calls in sports. There's a lot of gray area and judgment involved. There's always going to be disagreeing opinions.

4- The Mavs lost far and square. They have no one to blame but themselves. The better team won the series. If you can't win game 6 and 7 and at home, you don't deserve to win. BYW, there's are Jason Terry's words, not mine.