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Old Thu Jul 03, 2003, 10:47am
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Re: My ruling on the legal issues...

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Originally posted by Lotto
My view is that block makes it certain that the ball isn't going in the bucket, so the try has ended before the ball leaves the shooter's hand.
How can you possibly say that the try has ended when the ball hasn't left the shooter's hand? You have no way of knowing the try won't be good until it leaves his hand. You've never seen a shot blocked that didn't still leave the shooter's hand and had a chance to go in?

Point is, until it leaves his hand, you can't know that it's not going in, unless you have ESP! And when it leaves his hand, TC ends.
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