Restart counts? (FED)

[doubleringer]

Instead of worrying about back court counts, how about a shot clock instead? I really like the lack of a back court count and the shot clock in the college women's game.

[bainsey]

The whole idea of picking up a count where we left off goes against the simple concepts of team control and a dead ball.

A backcourt count starts when there's team control in the backcourt. It doesn't start during a throw-in (no control), and control ends when the ball is dead.

Once that ball is dead, whatever happened prior to that point is irrelevant. We start fresh. We don't care whether a team crossed the division line before the dead ball. That ball is dead. And from there, we start over, so you can toss that throw-in anywhere you want in-bounds. If it's controlled in the backcourt, then there it is. Start counting.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by bainsey

The whole idea of picking up a count where we left off goes against the simple concepts of team control and a dead ball.

A backcourt count starts when there's team control in the backcourt. It doesn't start during a throw-in (no control), and control ends when the ball is dead.

Once that ball is dead, whatever happened prior to that point is irrelevant. We start fresh. We don't care whether a team crossed the division line before the dead ball. That ball is dead. And from there, we start over, so you can toss that throw-in anywhere you want in-bounds. If it's controlled in the backcourt, then there it is. Start counting.

Concepts can have exceptions. We already have a major one to that concept with the shot clock. The 10-second backcourt count isn't some sort of sacred cow. You don't even have one in games played under NCAA-W rules. It's not like asking to raise the basket to 11'.