Backcourt?

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

The only reason I asked this question was to respond to your comment about the principle of player location not applying to a backcourt violation until a player lands. To me that's just another exception we would need to remember.

Fwiw, I don't particularly like the throw-in exception; I would prefer all throw-ins be handled with all the normal player location and team control/player control rules in effect. But the committee decided to add the TI exception and the "good defense" exception to the backcourt violation. Ok. At least they kept other aspects in place - the TI exception ends when the TI ends. That's what makes this play easy enough for me - there's no additional "exceptions" to remember.

Perhaps a better way to write such a rule, rather than exceptions to the backcourt violation, would be to say that a the existance of a FC and BC for a team do not exist until there is player control by a player in contact with the floor inbounds. That would take care of all of the exceptions at the same time.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Perhaps a better way to write such a rule, rather than exceptions to the backcourt violation, would be to say that a the existance of a FC and BC for a team do not exist until there is player control by a player in contact with the floor inbounds. That would take care of all of the exceptions at the same time.

On initial review, that sounds good to me. I'd have to think about it some more though, to see if there are any other unintended consequences.

In the meantime, just use your influence over various members of the committee to get this under consideration.