Backcourt on "controlled tap"?

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

No. Not every thread. Just when I see an inviting straight line.

Great.

Originally Posted by refiator

Simple. Some people aren't on this post 24/7 to see everything that comes across.

I don't know anyone that's on here 24/7.

[BballRookie]

My two cents:

In response to it being said that this question is posted on here every year: maybe it should be. The life blood of every forum on the internet is a combination of new users and old users. In this situation we have new officials who are curious (me) and learning (me) and we have a officials who have been at it for a while and discovered this forum long ago. With new officials joining all the time the "old timers" will probably have to be patient and deal with these inquiries.

Personally, I think it's silly to assume that everyone knows the answer to these questions or were on this forum 3 years ago with when somebody brought up a similar topic.

And.. yes, you can do a search by topic, but with the rules changing ever so slightly all the time so isn't it safer to ask instead of reading a post from 2004?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BballRookie

My two cents:

In response to it being said that this question is posted on here every year: maybe it should be. The life blood of every forum on the internet is a combination of new users and old users. In this situation we have new officials who are curious (me) and learning (me) and we have a officials who have been at it for a while and discovered this forum long ago. With new officials joining all the time the "old timers" will probably have to be patient and deal with these inquiries.

Personally, I think it's silly to assume that everyone knows the answer to these questions or were on this forum 3 years ago with when somebody brought up a similar topic.

And.. yes, you can do a search by topic, but with the rules changing ever so slightly all the time so isn't it safer to ask instead of reading a post from 2004?

It's not the repeated questions that surprise me, nor even the frequency. It's the nature of some of them. This particular question implies that the poster doesn't know the basics of player and team control. I shouldn't be surprised, given that there are plenty of playoff-level high school officials who don't know the basics like this. But it is a basic, in that player and team control affect so many rulings; not knowing this means you're really guessing on a lot of plays.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by BballRookie

Personally, I think it's silly to assume that everyone .... were on this forum 3 years ago with when somebody brought up a similar topic.

No assumption necessary. All I have to do is read the part of the OP's bio that says February 2009.

By definition, there's no such thing as a "controlled tap." Therefore, since knowing the definitions is the foundation of rule knowledge, I think Snaq is correct that many are playing a guessing game. No offense intended to the OP.