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Originally Posted by blindzebra
I saw it 3 more times today and no way can you see the ball in flight through the backboard.
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If you look just inside the right edge of the board, you can see part of the ball going up. Its there if you want to see it. I replayed it several time to confirm...it's there.
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Originally Posted by blindzebra
The backboard is in the lane, for Shipp to have shot it over the top he'd have had to be in the paint and he wasn't.
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No he doesn't.
Front tip of the rim is 24" from the backboard. Backboard is 6ft wide and 4ft from the baseline, lane is 12ft wide. The point on the baseline that leads over the corner to the very front tip of the rim is 3' outside the lane...and that is just to the front tip....and unmakeable point without crossing clearly over the top. The path to the center of the basket directly over the corner and from the baseline starts 4.5' outside the lane....and that spot is just barely makeable on a lucky day.
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Originally Posted by blindzebra
One more time, the shot came up over the side and top edge of the backboard and not from behind it.
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There you have it...you even say it crossed over the top. Nothing about the rule says anything about the ball needing to be directly behind the backboard....only that it crosses over the top.