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Originally Posted by Old School
Okay, I see you're trying to twist me up here. This is still interesting reading on this play. Again, if you get to hung up on the detail of the rule itself, you will undoubtly miss the play. R4-11-2 states that:
If an opponent fouls after a player has started a try for goal, he/she is permitted to complete the customary arm movement, and if pivoting or stepping when fouled, may complete the usual foot or body movement in any activity while holding the ball. These priviledges are granted only when the usual throwing motion has started before the foul occurs and before the ball is in flight.
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The detail of the rule itself is the only way to get the play right. So, let's quote the whole rule and see how it applies.
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Originally Posted by Rule Book
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Art. 1... Continuous motion applies to a try or tapp for field goals and free throws, but it has no significance unless there is a foul by any defensive player during the interval which begins when the habitual throwing movement starts a try or with the touching on a tap and ends when the ball is clearly in flight.
Art. 2... If an opponent fouls after a player has started a try for goal, he/she is permitted to complete the customary arm movement, and if pivoting or stepping when fouled, may complete the usual foot or body movement in any activity while holding the ball. These priviledges are granted only when the usual throwing motion has started before the foul occurs and before the ball is in flight.
Art. 3... Continuous motion does not apply if a teammate fouls after a player has started a try for a goal and before the ball is in flight. The ball becomes dead immediately.
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This rule is pretty clearly not applicable when trying to determine whether a foul has occurred or by whom it was committed. It only becomes applicable, according to the excruciatingly clear wording, when you have already determined that a foul has been committed by the defense. Anyone with the reading ability beyond a first grade student could see this.
I'll say it again. I think you're really smarter than this, but faith can only hold out against incontrovertable scientific evidence for so long.