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Mick
Go back and reread NFHS situation 1. It is telling you where to take the ball OOB, it has nothing to do with the designated spot. It says that based on where the foul happened that you take it to the endline in cases b & d, in a & c you take it to the sideline.
Bart. I like where you are going with philosophy.
My philosophy is that unless specifically prohibited by rule then it must be legal. There are very few rules that tell you what a legal play is, most of the rules tell you what an illegal play is.
Let's take slapping the backboard. Unless it is intentional and causes the backboard to vibrate (the rule 10 thing) then by deduction all other slaps to the backboard are legal even if they cause an unfair advantage by causing the ball to stay out of the basket.
remember when they changed the rule about interlocking players to make it illegal. It was legal until some coaches got creative. so now it is a banned activity.
Compression shorts/t-sirts all had unrestricted rules until the fed restricted them.
This is where I have seen officials get in the trouble. What do you say when there is a complaint or question that someone says show me where in the book it states you cant do that?
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