Restart counts? (FED)

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Sure they have exceptions, but if we go to that, would we then not allow a front court throwin to be thrown into the BC?...

I don't think the 2 have to be intertwined. Apples and oranges IMO.

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

...Again, I see this as the proverbial solution in search of a problem.

I think you could find ample enough folks who think it is a problem for a team to get 10 additional seconds to cross midcourt just because they called a time-out.

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I think you could find ample enough folks who think it is a problem for a team to get 10 additional seconds to cross midcourt just because they called a time-out.

I don't know, BNR. If by "folks," you mean fans, then I think this doesn't make their radars. (I say the number one fans' desired change is a national shot clock.) If you mean coaches, maybe, but my best guess is most are indifferent to this. If you mean officials, then I doubt it, as it's just another thing we'd have to think about, and most of us would say we have enough as it is.

Getting back to the shot clock, a backcourt-count rule change would be far more easily enforced if there were a shot clock nationwide. If you get a shot clock first, then I think we could make this change more effectively.

[constable]

In FIBA, the backcourt count is not reset on an OOB or held ball where the offence retains possession. FIBA also only allows 8 seconds to advance the ball over half.


I don't have a problem with keeping the back court count, but a 5 second or 3 second count being suspended by a time out is foolish to me.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by constable

FIBA also only allows 8 seconds to advance the ball over half.

Is that 10 seconds in metric? BTW - did you know that France was the first country to adopt the metric system? Figures.