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Originally posted by Nevadaref
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Originally posted by IREFU2
Anything that passes over the backboard from the front is out of bounds.
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It is also OOB if the ball passes over a rectangular backboard from the BACK.
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And my understanding is that the reason for the rule was originally
not to keep the ball from going front to back. Either Mikan's or Chamberlain's college team ran an OOB play every time the got the ball on their own end line. The big guy would set up a foot from the rim and the inbounder would lob the ball over the backboard. Nobody could block the pass, and the big guy could outjump everybody for it. Easy two points every time. The next season, you couldn't cause the ball to pass over the backboard.
Now that I think about it, maybe it was Chamberlain, b/c in Mikan's day, I think the backboards were all still fan-shaped. I don't really know for sure, tho.