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Originally Posted by bbsbvb83
Situation 1: Team R makes its first contact with a served ball which then contacts the main basketball goal on the same side of the net (retractible style basketball goal - hanging in a verticle position). Another player on the same team would have had a legitimate opportunity to play the ball if the basketball goal had not been there. Replay, correct?
Situation 2: Team R makes its first contact with a served ball which then contacts a side basketball goal on the same side of the net (basketball goal is mounted flush with the wall & directly onto the wall). Another player on the same team would have had a legitimate opportunity to play the ball if the basketball goal had not been there. What is the appropriate call? Does it matter if the ball contacted the backboard first or the rim first?
Thanks for your help.
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Situation #1 - This according to the book is a judgement call on the part of the referee. When the ball contacts the vertical obstruction, the referee blows the whistle and then determines if the ball would have been able to be played...if so, as you state, then yes, this is a replay. If not, then the ball is "out" point awarded to the serving team.
Situation #2 - From your description I am visualizing that the backboard is flush against the wall with the rim sticking out away from the backboard. In this case any ball that hits the backboard would have hit the wall had the backboard not been there. The backboard is part of the wall, any ball contacting it is out. The only question in my mind would be if the ball hit the rim. To do this and for a player to have been able to play the ball had the rim not been there, you would have had to have a ball coming almost straight down from above - a pretty rare thing, especially on a pass from a serve. In my judgement (and of course I would have to be there to see it) this ball would be nearly impossible to have been played by any player...ball is out-of-bounds...point serving team. If the ball
was coming straight down and touches the rim and a player is waiting below to play the ball, then I've got a replay.