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Originally posted by heyref
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Originally posted by ChuckElias
Using your thinking, if I stand on one side of a 1 foot high fence and jump 18" straight up, then land in the same spot from which I started, I have jumped over the fence. That's ridiculous. Nobody means that when they say "jump over the fence".
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Just curious why you chose the second definition instead of the first. Obviousley you feel no other ref would be stupid enough to think of it in terms of the first definition
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I gave you an example (above) to show why I "chose" the second definition instead of the first. The fact of the matter is that no one uses the first definition in a context that we are discussing. Literally
no one I know would say in my above example that I had jumped over the fence, even tho according to the first definition you posted, I did jump over it. No one uses "over" in that way in that context. No one. So that leaves the second definition.
If, as you suggest, we use the first defitinition, the ball would be OOB on every high-arcing jump shot, since the ball is thrown higher than the top of the backboard. Since the ball is obviously NOT considered OOB in those situations, definition 1 cannot be the correct interpretation.
And although I would not use the term "stupid", I do think that no reasonable official would use the first definition in determining whether the ball had passed over the backboard.
I don't think I can say anything on the subject more clearly than that.
Chuck