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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Maybe you do. I doubt you speak for the rest of us. For instance, the call I have the most trouble with is, .....is.....er....... huh - I don't have trouble with any calls. OK, maybe the false multiple team control double technical foul during a live ball by players jumping from back court to front court while taunting following a third successive timeout by a visiting team who's in the double bonus in the second half. Go figure.

I have heard from very highly placed sources on both the NFHS, NCAA, and FIBA rules committee that they're all working tirelessly on standardizing the rules for this play. He wouldn't send me the actual text of the new rule, but he did say that the penalty would be 15 yards (meters in FIBA), divided by the number of consecutive time outs, penalized from the blue line. The jumpers all receive yellow cards.

I think this is a great move forward for the game. It certainly beats the heck out of the current rule (which, as you well know, involves the head cheerleaders from each team arm wrestling), or the older rule which involved the two team's home countries going to war.