View Single Post
  #5 (permalink)  
Old Wed Mar 27, 2002, 11:37pm
Mark Dexter Mark Dexter is offline
Official Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 1999
Posts: 4,801
No, no, no, no, NO!!!!!!

This (or something similar) is only goaltending in the NBA. No matter how much the freakin' fans and coaches scream, this is a legal play.

Here's how to see the play:
(1) For BI, you need one of the following qualifications:
a. Ball in cylinder
b. Ball in/on basket
c. "Reaching through" rim

(2) For GT, you need all of the following qualifications:
a. TRY for goal
b. Ball in DOWNWARD flight
c. Ball entirely above rim
d. Possibility to go in

None of the qualifications in (1), and a and b in (2) [where b is the more important] are met, so this cannot be BI/Goaltending!

(Try explaining that to the GU athletics staff, though!)
__________________
"To win the game is great. To play the game is greater. But to love the game is the greatest of all."
Reply With Quote