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Originally Posted by blindzebra
The casebook uses the words passes directly over.
To me directly is intended to mean directly from the front to the back or directly from the back to the front and not over the corner.
I have a difficult time believing that shot passed DIRECTLY over the backboard, because it didn't.
I'd bet that had that shot not had enough air under it it would have struck the side of the backboard and not the back, and for it to fit the directly over stipulation it would need to strike the back.
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Imagine the backboard extended out the top to the ceiling...any spot on that extended backboard is directly over the backboard. If the ball passes through that extended backboard in any direction, it has passed over the backboard. The only question that is unanswered is how much of the ball? Any part? The center? The whole thing?
Me? I'm not calling it if it is just the edge of the ball....but will call it if it is the center but a little of the ball is still outside the plane of the backboard.