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Originally Posted by Scrapper1
By rule, this should be a 3. Any thrown ball that starts outside the arc and then goes in a player's own basket without touching the floor, a teammate or an official counts as 3. I think it's 5-2-1.
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That's the one.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrapper1
There is a case play (I can't remember the reference) in which a 3-point try falls short of the goal, bounces off a defender and then goes in the basket. It is ruled as a 2-point basket because the try clearly ended. This, IMHO, clearly contradicts the rule but is the correct ruling.
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I don't think it really contradicts it, because the case play clearly states it's a
try, and once a try ends the bounce off the player becomes a second action, so to speak.
5.2.1 Sit. C (b) covers the OP's exact play.