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Rules Corner: No Time Out nor Change without Clock:


"... During the jump ball to start the game but before the ball is legally tapped, jumper A1 commits a violation and the ball is awarded to team B for a throw-in. At this moment either coach requests a time-out or a substitution.
Is this time-out given ? How we register this possession ? ..."

Rule's Fundamental= A charged time-out or a substitution cannot be granted before the playing time for a period has started or after the playing time for a period has been completed.

Game's Rule= The time-out or substitution cannot be granted because the playing time has not yet started.

eBA Statistical Register=
- against A1 a foul made - a "bad" one because of the lost possession;
- the received foul for team's B player - very "good" one; and
- the 1st. Jump Ball: in favour Team B.

For our classification of "good" and "bad" fouls go to the eBA Basketball Statistics Clinics documents, or use the "search" option in our eBA Statistics Forum to reach the posts about the topic.

The eBA Statistical Registration is included in the Encyclopedia eBA - Case Studies.



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Basketball News: Detroit Shock - Los Angeles Sparks WNBA Fight

The Los Angeles Sparks and Detroit Shock exchanged yesterday rough pushes in what is being nicknamed “The First Brawl in WNBA History”.

Cheryl Ford of the Detroit Shock and Candace Parker of the Sparks started the hostilities and with four seconds remaining in the game Plenette Pierson picked up where her teammate left off with Parker. When the dust settled three players were ejected, Rick Mahorn was ejected for pushing Lisa Leslie, and Cheryl Ford injured her knee trying to separate between the lady-fighters...

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Statistician's Digest: Basic Turnovers Breakdown

"...Have the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System a basic breakdown of turnovers related to 2 percentages:

1) Opponent turnovers that result in our team steals
2) Opponent turnovers forced that weren't recorded as our team steals

What % of all turnovers are steals, and what % are non-steal turnovers ? ...

From the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System archives:

51.4 % of Total Team Turnovers are finally recorded as a steal for the other team: Forced Turnovers.
Therefore 48.6 % of all turnovers are of the non-steal classification: Unforced Turnovers.

Total Team Turnovers are (on average) more than two times the number of opponent steals.

There is some different versions about how many of these Team TO are registered over a season. But basically you have 3 classes of TO: steals (Forced by the Opponent) ; non-steals attributed to individuals (Unforced); and 'other' team TO (as shot-clock violations).

Each one of these TO cases and the eBA Statistical Registration are described and analyzed in the exposition "Turnovers" at the eBA Clinics.

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Team USA Basketball Olympics Preview

A mix of possibly the second coming of the USA Basketball Dream Team.

Footage from FIBA Americas 2007 to the song Second Coming by Juelz Santana and Just Blaze.

To see the today Argentine Basketball Olympics Preview, click above on "Español".

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Statistician's Digest: Possessions Numbers Very High and Different

"...Looking at the boxscore of yesterday's playoffs and applying this possession´s formulas:
Poss = (0.96*(FGA + TO - OREB +(0.44*FTA))
I reached to the following numbers
Team A: 105.4
Team B: 114.6

Is this correct ? How can be so different ? Should the "team rebounds" be added to the team total rebounds? Are they all defensive? ...

It seems like those numbers are too high, and can not be so different:

1 - The eBA Basketball Analysis System register the "team rebounds" and apply them to the team total in equal proportions to the offensive and defensive rebounds that are given in the team total. In our reports, where we make a distinction between offensive and defensive team rebounds, team rebounds are included in the team total, but referred separately in a special column.

2 - As I said in the eBA Statistics Clinics, the free throw coefficient is only an estimate. As we stated in this thread, the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System looking for exactness, register the real number of times the team reached the line for 2 or 3 free throws with the concept UP TO THE LINE, remarking between parenthesis the number of times the last throw was MADE.

3 - Shots at the end of the period include - in box scores as your´s - "team rebound" that may add possessions that don't really exists - see for reference this thread. Technical FTA are subtracted from the regular FTA, since they aren't really part of any possession.

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Germany win over Puerto Rico and reaches Olympics

Germany beat Puerto Rico 96-82 on Sunday in the last game of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament to claim the final place on offer for the Beijing Games.

Dirk Nowitzki had 32 points and nine rebounds for the Germans, who also got a sensational effort from point guard Steffen Hamann.

Puerto Rico, who caused the biggest shock of the 2004 Olympics when they upset the United States on opening day, will now have to watch as six teams from Europe and only two from the FIBA Americas - Team USA and Argentina - go to Beijing.

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Basketball Unforgettable Legends: Stojan "Stojko" Vranković

Stojan "Stojko" Vranković (born January 22, 1964, in Drniš, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a retired Croatian basketball player.

A 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) center, he played 5 seasons (1990–1992; 1996–1999) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Boston Celtics, Minnesota Timberwolves, and Los Angeles Clippers. He was very popular in Europe while playing for Athens-based Panathinaikos and winning the club's first Euroleague Championship.

Photograph: Vedia PhotoStream

Vranković earned a silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics Basketball Tournament with the Yugoslavia national basketball team. But his most memorable moment was in the following 1992 Olympic Games with his then newly-independent Croatia national team, winning silver in the men's final against the American "Dream Team".

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Statistician's Digest: No Double Dribble until a Set is Ended

"...A player has possession of the ball with both hands:
- he stoops down and puts the ball on the floor with both hands still on the ball.
- he stands up again with the ball still in his hands and
stoops down again and put the ball back on the floor with his both
hands still on the ball, is this a double dribble call?
What kind of basketball statistics rule: unforced turnover? ...

There are a couple of meanings in this situation: the first depends on whether or not the player started to dribble. The described action, if it is his first movement with the ball would not be a double dribble. The motive for this ratification is because a dribble is done when "a player in ball control, who throws or taps the ball into the air or to the floor". At no moment of the described action the player "throws or taps the ball into the air or to the floor". As a result of it is that the player never had his first dribble, so having a second would be impossible.

In the action described above the player would still be breaking the rules, and this violation would be "Traveling". This would be the second meaning coming from the application of the double dribble rule, that would be if the described action was made with only one hand.

eBA Statistical Registration: Unforced Turnover.

Although in the case in which a player get a pass from another player or catches a rebound, he crouch through the floor, put the ball on it with his both hands still on the ball, then stand up and crouches again putting back the ball on the floor again with his both hands still on the ball while its on the floor, in order to protect the ball from his opponent: this is not double dribble because the ball never left the player's hands. It's impossible to get a double dribble call until one set of dribbling was ended.

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Statistician's Digest: No Double Dribble until a Set is Ended

"...A player has possession of the ball with both hands:
- he stoops down and puts the ball on the floor with both hands still on the ball.
- he stands up again with the ball still in his hands and
stoops down again and put the ball back on the floor with his both
hands still on the ball, is this a double dribble call?
What kind of basketball statistics rule: unforced turnover? ...

There are a couple of meanings in this situation: the first depends on whether or not the player started to dribble. The described action, if it is his first movement with the ball would not be a double dribble. The motive for this ratification is because a dribble is done when "a player in ball control, who throws or taps the ball into the air or to the floor". At no moment of the described action the player "throws or taps the ball into the air or to the floor". As a result of it is that the player never had his first dribble, so having a second would be impossible.

In the action described above the player would still be breaking the rules, and this violation would be "Traveling". This would be the second meaning coming from the application of the double dribble rule, that would be if the described action was made with only one hand.

eBA Statistical Registration: Unforced Turnover.

Although in the case in which a player get a pass from another player or catches a rebound, he crouch through the floor, put the ball on it with his both hands still on the ball, then stand up and crouches again putting back the ball on the floor again with his both hands still on the ball while its on the floor, in order to protect the ball from his opponent: this is not double dribble because the ball never left the player's hands. It's impossible to get a double dribble call until one set of dribbling was ended.

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Canada strike back to stun Korea and reach quarter-final

Canada shocked Korea with a second-half comeback for the ages to keep their hopes of reaching the Beijing Games alive.

Canada team trailed by 18 points early in the third quarter and was still down by 10 with less than two minutes remaining but ended up winning 79-77.

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