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Originally Posted by blindzebra
You are wrong.
The Fed casebook says passes DIRECTLY over.
The intent of the rule is to keep the ball from going DIRECTLY from front to back or back to front.
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You just made my point for me. What is directly over? It is any position DIRECTLY over the backboard. How is a position 2-3" from end of the board any less above the backboard than a position 12" from the end? The DIRECTLY is refering to the position relative to the backboard, not the direction the ball is traveling.
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Originally Posted by blindzebra
Shipps shot would have hit the SIDE of the backboard had it been lower. The shot passed over the side of the BB and the top edge of the BB, you know the parts of the BB that are inbounds legally.  |
Shipps shot, had it been just a little lower, would have bounced on the top corner and continued to the front...had it done so, would there have been any discussion? Lower still and it would have hit the back/side corner...perhaps more on the side.
It's not possible to pass over the side of the backboard. You can go around the side, but not over...geometrically impossible.