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Originally Posted by Smitty
When was this not the case?
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Smitty,
I don't remember the exact year. I do remember that in the late 1980s, you could move on the release -- we had "plays" including setting screens across the lane and up the lane back in the day.
Initially, the changed the rule to indicate that a defender could not "break the plane" of the free throw line to "box out" the shooter. A year or two later, the rule changed to prevent anyone from going into the lane.
If I were to guess, I am thinking that the rule changed in the early to mid 1990s.
Allegedly, the origin of the rule change was that a couple of HS female players sustained torn ACL's as FT Shooters. Today, it makes NO SENSE to me that we are only concerned about "rough play" on rebounds when the shot is taken from 15 feet from the basket, directly in front of the basket with no defensive pressure. I was fine with the "free throw plane" issue -- no different than a jump shooter being undercut even though most FT shooters don't jump.
Fri Nov 16, 2012, 11:38am
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