[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

We have been explicitly told that "raising the ball with the hand(s) and/or arms to shoot a layup" needs to happen for it to be considered continuous motion.

Whoever is telling you that is just flat out wrong. And you can quote me too him. The NCAA Rules Committees moved the Act of Shooting Definitions from Rule 4 to Rule 5 (I do not know why) some years ago, but they have not changed in the last 50 years (both NFHS and NCAA). The NFHS and NCAA Men's and Women's defintions of Continuous Motion are the same.

The phrase in red was the NCAA Men's Rules Committee's ill fated attempt (due to lack of understanding of the defintion of Guarding) last school year to limit Defender's right to Establish a LGP against an Offensive Player who was dribbling toward the his basket and has since been recinded for this school year. It was part of the definition of Guarding, not the Act of Shooting or Continuous Motion definitions.

MTD, Sr.