You can watch the game here:
Championship Game. The play occurs with 2.9 seconds left in the 1st half.
The switching of hands appeared to occur primarily b/c of the backboard being in the way of shooting with his right hand.
How would you rule on these plays?:
- The Micheal Jordan shot Video where he starts with one hand and switches to the other. Lets say he got fouled after starting his motion but before he switches hands are we not scoring it?
- B1 fouls A1 as he is jumping to shoot a layup. B2 is defending the basket and forces A1 to switch hands and shoot a reverse layup.
This isn't applicable to whether or not we would rule a shooting foul but for fun
if you were the person in charge of inputting the stats at the scorers table would you record 1 made field goal on
2 attempts in Jordan's play?
In my opinion the rules support this as being a shooting foul but I think that its good Nevada brings the question up. Anytime we can think critically/differently it helps us in truly understanding the rules.
