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Old Wed Sep 30, 2009, 10:27pm
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Originally Posted by bas2456 View Post
I was shooting free throws today at the gym and came across a situation...

As I was starting my shooting motion, the ball sort of slipped out of my hands, so I stopped myself and started again.

Would you call this a fake during a game? There is a situation in the casebook (9.1.2), but how does an official tell what's a fake and what isn't?
It's less relevant now that the players on the lane can't enter until the ball hits the rim or backboard, so it would have to be one hel1 of an obvious fake before I'd even think about whistling the violation.
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