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MIssed Backcourt (almost)
Had a situation last night that I've never experienced before. I'm T tableside. Ball swings opposite fairly deep into the corner. L starts the rotation since just about all the players were over there. I get to C and begin to look into the paint for any matchups there.
I look back out top and the ball is bouncing into the backcourt where A1 gathers it and starts dribbling back toward front court. I have absolutely no idea what happened over there or how the ball got back there. I recover somewhat toward backcourt and immediately hear BHC yelling for "over and back". I look across and see my partner looking at me for a whistle. I got nothing. He (after it seemed an eternity) hit his whistle and we got together in the center of the floor. I told him I didn't see what happened as I was looking into the paint. He told me that no B player touched it, and we needed a violation. All this time, I'm wondering why he just didn't go get it. Then I realize L had backed out of the rotation seeing that the offense was trying to skip pass back out to the top, making me the T again. In the end, we got the play right, but it was a little sloppy looking on what I (now) understand was a pretty obvious violation. Any advice for what I should have done here? |
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Tell your partner to blow his whistle sooner and call a backcourt violation! The reason it "looked bad" was because he blew his whistle and came to you without making a call....
Who cares who calls it...just get the play right. |
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Moral of the story: Never release coverage of the ball until you know your partner has picked it up. You can't assume he/she has accepted that play just because the L has started to rotate.
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Good point. Lesson learned. Just an odd sequence on the play.
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Yep...and it is those odd sequences that bite us in the butt and teach us the hard lessons we don't forget!
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