It is not clear to me how the rule is interpreted, even after a previous thread discussing this rule. It seems that since the top of the backboard is in, then at some point the entire ball pass from a position behind the backboard to front or the shot is legal. If you shot from the baseline, 15 feet out, and the ball hit the close corner of the backboard directly on top, it would not be out, right? In the case I am outlining, the ball starts from a position that is behind the plane of the backboard extended and must have some small portion still behind the backboard when it strikes directly on top (and some portion in front). However, it never was completely behind the backboard.
I don't think that the replays were definitive in establishing that the entire ball passed over the corner of the backboard. Even harder to establish that fact at full speed.
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