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Old Wed Jun 06, 2007, 03:44pm
Mark Dexter Mark Dexter is offline
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Originally Posted by blindzebra
Think about the intent of the rule.

It calls for a little common sense on our parts...a try/throw that is heading up, gets touched and continues heading up is very different than a try/throw that is 7 feet high, heading down and then gets touched and goes 11 feet high and in the basket.
I agree that that's what we should do (and what 4.41 suggests, if we think that takes precedent), but the point of that rule change was to take our common sense judgement away and simply call everything from long-range a 3.
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