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Old Sat Jun 10, 2017, 05:07am
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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Originally Posted by deecee View Post
Please stop.
Please back off the statement below:

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If a ball goes in the basket, and I'm officiating, then the intent was to score.
Please explain what statement of mine lead one to believe that I wouldn't count the basket (below):

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Team A shoots and misses, A1 goes to rebound but the ball bounces off his shoulder and go in the basket. Go ahead, cancel the goal. I'll love watching the youtube videos of you go viral.
Usually, the ball enters the basket as the result of a try, but sometimes it doesn't. When that rare event happens, it's important to understand the ramifications of the rule.

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Billy's example is obviously an extreme one. But intent is obviously a question which sometimes must be answered.
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Last edited by BillyMac; Sat Jun 10, 2017 at 06:18am.