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I will disagree. You can be in the act of shooting and not be an airborne shooter. As you quote ...The act of shooting begins simultaneously with the start of the try or tap and ends when the ball is clearly in flight, and includes the airborne shooter.
The rule only states it includes airborne shooter. You can be in the act of shooting and not be airborne.
Long before there was the airborne shooter rule, there was the act of shooting.
By your logic then you can never be in the act of shooting when you are standing flat-footed on the ground. The act of shooting may be shorter than someone with a good hang-time may be in the act of shooting longer, but a player laying on the ground could be in the act of shooting. I would also suggest that based on that then a person who is moving toward the basket and started up towards the basket is not an airborne shooter, yet continuous mtion applies and he has started the try, yet the shooter is not airborne. The airborne shooter definition and accompanying stuff was but in several years ago but the act of shooting rule has not changed.
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