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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
So let's skip my earlier list for now and allow me to ask you why you feel that an official standing at the FT line extended on one side of the court would not have a good view of an unguarded player releasing a right-handed lay-up from the other side of the basket. What is obstructing his view? Why do you think that his angle is poor? Where is the C normally positioned in a 3-man game when he has the last shot? How about the T during a half court offensive set?
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Why don't you do this... ask someone to take a basketball and put it in his/her left hand, and then place the right hand on the right side of the ball, whether touching the ball or not. Then you stand about 20 feet away at about a 10-15 degree angle. You couldn't possibly tell whether that hand is touching the ball or not. Then you got the net and the rim obstructing your view as well during this layup. Me, I had the best and clearest view of the ball and the hand as I was pretty much in line with the player at the taken of the shot, to the right of the net and rim so I had no obstruction. I was able to see the hand clearly, and the ball was released from the hand just before the buzzer. He had a bad angle to see where the ball was in relation to the hand.
End of discussion, I'm going to bed. Feel free to say more but I won't be replying until tomorrow.