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Re: 2010 Pittsburgh Regional

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Originally Posted by PhilBot View Post
I was checking out the video to see what the red card fuss was about..... and noticed some interesting footage at 56:10.

1114 has the ball, and gets tipped up from the side.

Is it my imagination, or does the ball go up with them?

If so, isn't that a clear case of ball posession (Carrying), and not an accidental one... their mechanism would tend to appear to firmly hold onto that ball (dual roller system maybe).

Clearly it's effective.... but doesn't <G44> outlaw this sort of mechanism...

We just competed at Chesapeake, and so I know that inspection didn't include a demonstration of ball handling, so when should this sort of <G44> thing get picked up and corrected?

(I mean, if it's permitted, I want one!)
You could clearly see a loss of contact with the floor in many matches. However they shoot so effectively that is is hard to see. That particular move sort or proved it to me. Our team (and some others I hear) brought it up to the refs, but nothing was done about it. Hopefully it will be caught for future regionals.
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