Spirit of Rule
The fact is, there are many rules that are rarely enforced because of advantage/disadvantage principles-this backcourt situation is one of them.
We had a scenario in our meeting last night where the ball was inbounded just in front of the timeline, A1 passes to unguarded A2, who decides to tip the ball into the backcourt and then pick it up. By rule, this is not backcourt, because team control isn't established on a throwin-however, we said that there was no reason A2 shouldn't have caught the ball, so the violation was called.
Again, I would not call the 10-count, as it will only lead to more trouble.
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Wed Nov 20, 2002, 07:30pm
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