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Originally posted by The Observer on 02-28-2000 11:20 PM
A player has the ball in either the deep left or deep right corner, out near the side line. At either of these positions, if the player shoots the ball, the ball will pass over the corner of the rectangular backboard. And since the ball passed over the backboard do you blow the ball dead? If the ball went thru the basket do you disallow the goal?
I'd check your math / geometry. Assuming the diagram in the front of the rule book is to scale, then a quick check with a straight edge shows that the center of the ball wouldn't pass over the backboard unless the shot was taken from just a couple of feet from the free throw lane.
Plus, the rule doesn't specify whether "part of the ball" or "all of the ball" must pass over the backboard (at least that I could find). even if it's "part" of the ball, I still think the shot would need to be inside the three-point arc before it would pass over the backboard.