The Over & Back Rule in Basketball

Video Transcript

"One other thing, when you talking about the "half court line", it comes across, right across the middle of the court. When you are talking about a half court line, you want to always keep in mind that once you cross as a team, anyone on the offense, once you cross back across that line, once you cross that line you can not cross back. That is called "back court violation". Now when you are first taking the ball out, you want to, you definitely want to cross the half court line before eight to ten seconds. It used to be ten seconds in my day when I played, but I have seen where they have counted eight, so you want to keep that in mind whenever you are playing ball that you got to cross that half court line and you can never, can never pass it back across that line once you have crossed over into the offense, the front court. That is just something that you need to keep in mind whenever you are playing, right around that half court line. Keeping in mind that you guys will always, always be within the regulations if you keep these rules, each of these rules I am telling you right now in mind when you are playing basketball."