Question about a basketball rule...

[SeeingEyeDog]

I watched a lot of basketball in the 70s and 80s and am a casual fan at best nowadays...

One procedure/rule I have never understood about basketball is the following scenario:

Team A scores a basket and Team B immediately requests a time out and the referee indicates time out has been called. After the time out, the team with possession is now given the ball just beyond half-court in their fore-court. Why is this? If it's a close game, especially late, the defense is likely going to employ a full-court press in hopes of either creating a turnover, drawing an offensive foul or creating a 10 second violation for failing to get the ball over the half-court.

Ok, so Team B has called this time out...and now instead of inbounding from behind their baseline, the ball is advanced beyond half-court thus denying Team A an opportunity to press to get the turnover, draw the foul or get the 10 second violation. Can someone explain why the rules are structured this way?

~Dawg

[noumpere]

If, in the same scenario, B is behind, it gives B a better chance at a last-second winning basket.

 

The rules makers decided the excitement of that outweighed the increased difficulty if A were behind (as in your scenario). 

 

(And, that rule doesn't apply at all levels.)

[maven]

On 7/30/2024 at 8:32 PM, SeeingEyeDog said:

After the time out, the team with possession is now given the ball just beyond half-court in their fore-court.

That's an NBA rule. In HS and NCAA, the non-scoring team gets possession under their opponent's basket and they may run the end line on the throw in.

I don't know Olympic/Int'l hoops rules, but would wager it's not the NBA rule.

I expect that noumpere's rationale for the NBA rule is at least part of why NBA is different.

[noumpere]

NCAAAW also has the "call a TO to advance the ball" rule (the specifics on the advancement might be different)

[SeeingEyeDog]

NFL...backed up to your own goal line, call time out and get the ball at the 50? No.

MLB...full count, 2 out in the ninth, call time and the batter gets 2nd base? No.

NHL...down late, puck in your own end, call time out and get a center ice face off? No.

NBA...we want that scoring, bro.

~Dawg