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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
The "imminent change of possession" rule used to be that you could't grant a team's TO request if they had a count against 'em and had used up 80% of the count.In other words if you hit 4 on a 5-second closely guarded count or throw-in count,or 8 on a 10-second backcourt count,you wouldn't grant a TO request.You just kept counting until there was a violation,or the team managed to avoid the violation(rare).When the rule first came in,I once asked a renowned rules interpreter what 80% of a 3-second count was.He thought about it for a minute,and then called me an a$$hole.
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2.4 seconds. You mean to say that you don't know how to count tenths just in case the clock doesn't start on an inbounds when there are, oh, let's say 1.2 seconds left on the clock? (Not like that's happened to me or anything
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[Edited by Mark Dexter on Feb 2nd, 2002 at 11:26 PM]
Fri Feb 01, 2002, 11:09am
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