Without the rule being written as it is, we would have to judge whether every ball that didn't draw iron or not, was a shot. Why do we need that in the game? That will happen a hundred more times than we'll see a player throw the ball off his backboard and then dunk it.
In fact, in 15 years of officiating, I have never had a player do this in one of my games.
Have you?
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