Rules Question!! Please help
 

Ok is a player considered out of bounds if a player is running and on foot steps out the other steps in and then gets a pass before the other foot touches in bounds or would the on foot in bounds be considered the last point of contact?

A player's location is determined by his last (or current) point of contact with the floor.
Examples.
1. Player standing with one foot out and one foot in, lifts the foot that was out so only his inbounds foot is on the floor. This player is in bounds.
2. Player standing OOB, takes one step in bounds and jumps off the foot that was in bounds. This player is in bounds.
3. Your example, the player is in bounds, as his last contact with the floor was in bounds.

Basically, all that's required to be in bounds is to have something in and nothing out.

Hope this helps.

You are considered to be located where you last touched. Unless the foot is still touching out of bounds, then the player is considered in bounds (if he is touching the in bounds area).

Peace

That's what I was thinking. I had some old folks telling me that both feet had to be inbounds before they are considered "inbounds." Thanks for the clarification.

Watch out for those "old folks" :)

Yup, they tend to forget things.

What if both feet are in-bounds, but the cane is touching out-of-bounds?

Not sure, I've never officiated the Jurassic League.

Just to further clarify (or muddy, depending on your POV)...

If a person is touching two areas simultaneously, he's in the one he probably doesn't want to be in.

IB + OOB = OOB
In the key + out of the key = in the key
Backcourt + frontcourt = backcourt
2 point area + 3 point area = 2 point area

And OOB trumps all. So OOB + frontcourt + backcourt = OOB.

Unless he's the thrower for a throw-in. :D

One foot + second foot +... :eek:

Also, a player who has one foot touching out of the key with the other foot in the air having last touched in the key is in the key....very different than the inbounds concept. To be out of the key, both feet must touch the floor out of the key.

His cane, obviously! :D

That's fifteen yards for unsportsmanlike caneduct. :o