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Old Thu Sep 11, 2014, 09:26pm
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Because no one could decide which three fingers (no, I'm not kidding. D. Williamson said as much at a camp). In the manual you're supposed to hold up the middle three fingers but not many people did that (I did). Some even did the FIBA method (thumb-index-middle). The rules folks decided to make it half a touchdown to standardize it.

The reason that FIBA uses the thumb-index-middle signal is because that is the only three finger combination that does not have a negative connotation in any society on Earth.

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The reason that FIBA uses the thumb-index-middle signal is because that is the only three finger combination that does not have a negative connotation in any society on Earth.
No. It's because the thumb-index-middle is based on the metric system.
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