Thread: GT for the win
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Old Tue Apr 16, 2013, 06:21am
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Originally Posted by Nevadaref View Post
Channeling my inner JR in his memory.
Jurassic Referee wouldn't be hesitant about commenting on this play. How about it guys, and gals? Are goaltending and basket interference mutually exclusive?

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... Mutually exclusive. Over the years our local interpreters have added the statement "outside the cylinder" to the goaltending definition, but that statement is not in the NFHS rulebook. So if you have a situation where a player touches the ball during a field-goal try, while it is in its downward flight, entirely above the basket ring level, while the ball is in the cylinder, and the ball has the possibility of entering the basket in flight, then, by strict interpretation of the written definition, the official can call either a goaltending violation, or a basket interference violation.
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