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Old Mon Apr 18, 2016, 01:50pm
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Originally Posted by deecee View Post
This is one of the stupidest arguments on here to date. The assumption that one would throw the ball of ANY backboard and NOT move their feet is completely absurd. For all intensive purposes a player throwing the ball towards their basket/backboard is a shot attempt in my book. I'm not intelligent enough to read into every "may", "deem" or officials "point of view" in the rule book. I work with my limitations and just call it like I see it.

Ball towards basket = shot attempt.
This I agree with.

However it is our job to judge intent, and simply throwing a ball against a backboard doesn't mean its a shot.
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