The only thing I don't get is your logic. If you use definition 1 to say that the ball has passed over the backboard, then you have to say that in my example, I jumped over the fence. Would you say that jumping 18 inches while next to a 1 foot high fence is "jumping over the fence"? Just answer that for me, and I'll be satisfied.
If you say no, I haven't jumped over the fence, then you have to say that the ball hasn't passed over the backboard when passed from one corner on the baseline to the opposite corner on the baseline (one of your own examples from earlier in the thread), even if it is thrown above the height of the backboard.
If you say yes, I really have jumped over the fence, then again I say you are not using the English language in a reasonable way. No one uses the word "over" in that way in such a context.
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Originally posted by heyref
A basketball can roll DIRECTLY OVER the top of a backboard with out touching any supports and NOT BE DEAD.
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This is the only thing you've written that is correct in this whole thread. I will agree with you. If the ball rolls entirely along the top edge of the backboard without hitting any other equipment, then it remains in play.
If, and this is a huge if (b/c the examples you have given are not of this type), you are talking about a ball traveling the exact same path as the ball rolling along the top edge of the backboard, except that it is 2 inches above the top edge of the backboard, then I would say that you are probably correct. Even then, it's possible that we should rule the ball as being OOB. But the chance of that actually happening in a game (or the chance of a human correctly judging that it actually happened in a game) is infinitesimal, and probably not worth serious consideration.
Chuck