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Originally posted by Dan_ref
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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
Whatinthehell are all you people talking about? 
BillyMac didn't say a damn thing about a dunk in his original statement. He said it is illegal to hang on the rim if a player was fouled. PERIOD!! That's an all-inclusive statement, folks. It covers all of the possible different scenarios, not just a dunk. For instance, it covers the case of a defender whacking the shooter as soon as he picked the ball up for a lay-up, with the shooter then continuing his normal motion, laying the ball off the board, and then following through and grabbing the ring and hanging from it. It could also cover a player going up for a tip, being fouled without ever touching the ball, and then grabbing the ring despite never having been put off-balance by the foul and also having nobody underneath him. According to Billy's original verbiage, it's legal to hang from the rim in that case too. Um, don't think so.
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Before I tell you to shut up, let me ask 1 question:
this includes dunks too, right?
TIA.
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Of course it does. Dunks are included under the same criteria as to how this rule is supposed to be administered. You can legally hang from the rim
only if you're doing so to prevent injury. Period. Whether the player hanging from the rim was fouled or not fouled isn't really relevant to the call at all. Whether the player was dunking the ball at the time isn't relevant at all either. And whether the player was fouled
while dunking the ball similarly ain't really relevant at all. Being fouled while dunking the ball doesn't give any ballplayer license to subsequently hang on the rim. The only judgement you have to make on this play is "Is the player hanging from the rim to prevent an injury?". Forget everything else. That was my point.
[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Aug 19th, 2005 at 04:42 AM]