Situation - help please

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Originally Posted by Camron Rust

They could effectively combine the TC and PC rules into a singe type of foul and add the airborne shooter clause to cover that and they'd have only one rule.

How about:

An offensive foul is a common foul
a. committed by a player while holding or dribbling the ball inbounds;
b. committed by a player whose team has team control at the time of the foul;
c. committed by an airborne shooter;
d. committed during a throw-in by a player on the team entitled to the throw-in, until the ball is controlled inbounds.

("d." is kind of awkward, but it's shorter than "committed by a player whose team is entitled to a throw-in; such foul being committed after the ball has become live to begin the throw-in and before the ball is controlled inbounds".)

MAJOR DISCLAIMER: This is NOT the current rule. It's my suggestion for how to re-write the rule so that we would have one type of foul for all "offensive"-type fouls, which might -- someday -- include fouls by the offense during a throw-in. Sorry for the confusion!