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King,
In your article, you propose a rule change: 12: "[Y]ou know how when the defense knocks the ball away and it goes into the backcourt it's not a backcourt violation, as long as the defense touched it last?
That should be a backcourt violation.
Why should the offense be rewarded for having had the ball knocked away? It seems to me the rule should be that once you've crossed the 10-second line, the 10-second line becomes an endline. Ball crosses it again without possession changing and it's a turnover."
If we treated the 10-second line truly as if it were an endline, then a ball batted beyond it would be considered out of bounds and possession would go to the team that did not touch it last. The net result in your example is that the offense would still have the ball. The current rule keeps the game moving rather than stopping play to in-bound the ball.
I do, however, completely agree with you about timeouts. We should reward strong play whenever we can.
