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Originally Posted by bearclause
"Dropping" may not have been the best description. Some of the players were doing all the motions of a dunk and forcing the ball through. The one detail is that they were clearly avoiding hand contact with the rim during the motions.
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Good enough for me. The main reason of the rule is to protect the equipment. If they don't touch the rim, it's not a dunk. It's a nit I'm not picking. If it's borderline/questionable, I'll walk up to the player and tell him to not be stupid. They never misunderstand that.
My second year in Wisconsin, I had a coach who wanted me to call this cause a player would drop/lightly push it down (he was almost 7 feet tall and would still have six inches between his hand and the rim). After a couple times of him whining, I told him "that's not a dunk, drop it". When I went to the table, he came over with a rulebook and dropped it on the book I was signing.
That was the one technical foul in my career I didn't call that I still regret to this day. Didn't matter, I ended up calling one during the game (and almost a second one, too). Thankfully, he retired soon thereafter and his replacement is one of the nicest guys you'd ever meet.