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[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

yes -- once the player caught the ball, the ball was in the FC, with team control. So, when the player landed in the BC, it's a violation. The "throw-in exception" applies only to the player to first touch the ball -- once the ball was tipped, that exception no longer applies.

And I think that is a silly exception...not that it exists but that it ends too early.

It SHOULD be that the backcourt violations after a throwin, steal, or a shot attempt (not in control of the team catching the ball in the historic definition of team control) don't take effect until after a player inbounds has caught the ball and landed...even if the first player caught the ball and passed it before landing.

It shouldn't matter if the ball was tipped or not or by who it was tipped. It keeps the interpretations and scenarios clean and simple. Allow such extra room in these three cases would rarely come into effect and having them be illegal doesn't really solve a problem needing solving.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

And I think that is a silly exception...not that it exists but that it ends too early.

It SHOULD be that the backcourt violations after a throwin, steal, or a shot attempt (not in control of the team catching the ball in the historic definition of team control) don't take effect until after a player inbounds has caught the ball and landed...even if the first player caught the ball and passed it before landing.

It shouldn't matter if the ball was tipped or not or by who it was tipped. It keeps the interpretations and scenarios clean and simple. Allow such extra room in these three cases would rarely come into effect and having them be illegal doesn't really solve a problem needing solving.

Way back when we had this argument, before the Fed clarified that the previously parenthetical examples were all inclusive, I thought they were only examples and the exception should apply to any player who establishes team control while airborne from his/her front court.

I still think that's how it should be.