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[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by bucky

No one in the world is going to have game management untangle the net.

Maybe not, probably one of the players, but it definitely won't be me. My days of jumping up to fix a net are long gone.

There have been several circumstances over the past thirty-eight years, where nets have become so tangled, or balls have become so stuck in hard to reach basket supports, that a custodian has had to come out with a ladder to get things corrected.

We have one high school in our area that keeps a long wooden stick handy because the supports are configured in such a way that the ball gets stuck way high up in the supports at least once a game.

In a middle school game you may not be able to find a player tall enough (maybe most girls games on all levels) to reach the net, or a ball wedged between the ring and the backboard.

I hate it when, during these circumstances, an official tries to toss the ball to fix the net, or a second ball tossed to dislodge a wedged game ball, or a second ball tossed to get game ball way high up on the supports, and fail in early attempts, the crowd really enjoys that. I've done this myself, but never seem to learn from my past mistakes