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Originally posted by ChuckElias
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Originally posted by Nevadaref
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Originally posted by rainmaker
even off the backboard is legal, or as it comes down from over the top.
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Uh, Juulie, wouldn't "over the top" make it OOB, and thus illegal?
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I'm just guessing, but I think she means "over the top of the basket". Up, over the rim without touching, and down on the other side.
You're right -- the ball passing over a rectangular backboard is a violation; however, I don't think that's what Juulie had in mind.
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Yeah, I knew Juulie was better than that too.
I was just picking on the grammar a little bit.
Notice that the backboard is the last noun that she used. The pronoun "it" certainly has to refer to the ball, but over the top of what is unclear, so by the structure used one would logically deduce that she was talking about the backboard.
However, if one uses outside knowledge about Juulie as a basketball official, as you did, Chuck, then the logical conclusion is that she was talking about a shot which passes over the ring without making any contact.