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Originally posted by smoref
This didn't happen to me but was brought up in the locker room.
.3 second left in game Team A has ball OOB in front court. They are down by 1 point. A1 throws the ball toward the basket. Player B1 jumps up deflects the ball. The ball goes off the backboard, time expires, then the ball goes in the basket.
Do you count the basket?
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No basket and here is why.
4-41 defines shooting, try or tap for goal. Since B1 deflected an inbounds pass towards A's basket, this does not qualify as a try or tap for goal by B1.
6-7 defines when a ball becomes dead with 6-7-6 becoming the important article (the period ending)
5-1-1 says a goal can only be counted when a live ball enters the goal from above.
So, the ball is dead when the period ends in this case and since the ball did not enter the basket before the end of the period, no basket is counted, even though the ball went through the goal after the horn ending the period.