Continuation Rule

[rainmaker]

Had two coaches question me last week about the continuous motion rule. First coach was quite argumentative during the game, but I whipped out my books after the game, and showed him both rule book and case book references. Next night, he questioned Padgett about it, without telling him why. Fortunately, what Padgett said exactly backed me up.

Second coach was also quite argumentative about it, but backed right down when I cited reference numbers. My partner came into the conversation (coach had called a TO to discuss this!), and explained that the rule had been changed about 5 years ago. This seemd to satisfy the coach. I asked partner later if this was true and he said, Nah, he just made it up.

It just seemd funny that in one week it would come up twice, wneh I have never had any questions before.

By the way, can someone with the PhD in Basketball Rule History, give a brief overview of this thread of rules, just for background...