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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
Now when you put the "off the backboard" into the equation, you are even allowed to run in between the toss and the jump because your toss becomes a shot.
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Coach,
I believe the case you make here is compelling and I applaud your erudite approach to the rules, but just know that what you claim is not stated in black and white in the rulesbook.
Earlier you wrote:
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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
Let's start with the facts. You can't get a DD or a travel by passing off your own backboard. You can either treat this rule as some sort of exception to other rules, or view it in the context of other rules and consider it a clarification. I choose to do the latter.
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Well, I choose the former. The reason that I do so is twofold. First the word "except" is used in rule 4-4-5 (see my post below) and secondly, please recall the play that happened in the NCAA tournament this year in which a ball was tipped during a scramble and hit the rim, but was ruled to not be a try, therefore causing a shot clock violation. My logic is that if a ball which hits the rim can be ruled to not be a shot, then certainly the same can be said for a ball which only hits the backboard.
Therefore, I must disagree with you that the toss becomes a shot simply because it hit the backboard. I'm calling it an exception to the double dribble violation (not sure why it would be an exception to the traveling rule, so hopefully you could help me with that), but I am not calling it a shot until the rulesbook or the casebook tells me flat out that it is a shot. My two cents.
[Edited by Nevadaref on Apr 17th, 2003 at 04:02 AM]