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Old Sun Mar 03, 2002, 11:53pm
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Originally posted by Mark Dexter
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Originally posted by jbduke
The rule that you state was inappropriately applied was put in because some rules committee member(s) became persuaded (how I do not know)that it is not possible to catch the ball and shoot it in less than three tenths of a second.
Uh, not quite.

Basically, an end of game try happened at the end of an NBA game where there was a huge clock lag. The NBA conducted experiments and said that it was humanly impossible to have a try after a throw-in with 3/10ths or less.
Uh, not quite.
A tap is a try.
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