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Originally Posted by rockchalk jhawk
goaltending:
does the ball have to be breaking the vertical or the horizontal plane of the ring for the new goaltending rule? in other words, can the ball be ball be all the way over to one side or the other of the backboard and touched on the way up after having touched the backboard and have goaltending? or does the ball have to be above the cylinder in the sense that if you were looking up through the cylinder from the bottom you could see the ball directly above you? i hope that makes sense.
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If the ball is directly above the cylinder and is touched, then it's basket interference. So it can only be goaltending if the ball is "over to one side". The ball must touch the backboard above the ring level during a try, and then be touched by a player in order to be goaltending.