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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
If it's not a shot, it always has to be a 2.
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JR, maybe the is the source of our disagreement. Your statement above is simply not true. Read 5-2-1 again: "A successful try, tap or
thrown ball that does not touch the floor, a teammate or oficial, from the field by a player who is located behind the team's own 19-foot, 9-inch line counts three points." Emphasis mine, obviously.
Any thrown ball that starts out behind the 3-point arc counts for three if it goes in, as long as it doesn't touch the floor, an offical or a teammate of the thrower. Then read the case play that goes along with it, 5.2.1 Situation C. It has four different scenarios, so I'm going to edit it down a little.
"A1 throws the ball from behind the three-point line. The ball is legally touched by: (a) B1 who is in the three-point area or (b) B1 who is in the two-point area.
RULING: In (a) and (b), three points are scored since the legal touching was by the defense and the ball was thrown from behind the three-point line."
The same point is made is the previous situation.
Situation B: "B1 has the ball. . . in Team B's frontcourt, standing behind the three-point arc. B5 makes a backdoor cut toward the basket. B1 passes theball toward the ring and B5 leaps for the potential "alley-oop" dunk. The ball, however, enters and passes through the goal directly from B1's pass and is not touched by B5.
RULING: Score three points for Team B. A bal that is thrown into a team's own goal from behind the three-point arc scores three points,
regardless of whether the thrown ball was an actual try for goal." Again, emphasis mine.
And you better agree with me now, b/c I had to type all that in!! I don't have Tony's fancy cut-and-paste capability.
