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Let's see how a strict constructionist might adjudicate these circumstances. The shoe, being a non-viable subset of a player, is not where it is, in the backcourt but rather still in the front court, as A1 has not landed at the time the ball strikes the shoe. The seat-of-the-pants approach is to pretend the shoe NEVER EXISTED for game purposes, toss it to the kid, and mutter, "put this effing thing on and learn to tie it!" |
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I am just flabbergasted that how this play can be nothing more or less than an out-of-bounds violation by the player who lasted touched the ball before the ball hit a spectator who is sitting in the first row. Let restate my post of Jan. 23, 2004, 09:17pm:
If all the fan was doing was just sitting in the first row of a gym with little or no room on the sidelines and the fan made no effort to intentionally touch the ball with the foot, you do NOT have fan interference (do not go looking for weird things), you have an out-of-bounds play. The team that last touched the ball before the ball touched the fan caused the ball to go out-of-bounds. This is not a play on situation. A out-of-bounds violation has occured. Do not try to make something out of nothing.
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Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. Trumbull Co. (Warren, Ohio) Bkb. Off. Assn. Wood Co. (Bowling Green, Ohio) Bkb. Off. Assn. Ohio Assn. of Basketball Officials International Assn. of Approved Bkb. Officials Ohio High School Athletic Association Toledo, Ohio |
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Mark, we all use a browser to surf this site.
We saw what you wrote on Friday. There's absolutely no need to re-state it. If people didn't believe you the first time, they aren't going to change their mind just because you know how to copy and paste. [Edited by BktBallRef on Jan 25th, 2004 at 06:20 PM] |
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OOB is appropriate here. You're lucky the ball took a normal hop, otherwise you'd have to explain the ball going crazy 'in-bounds'.
I have done games where the bleachers were right up to the sideline and in other cases that all they had for seating for the parents were folding chairs right up to the line. |
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Who Throws a shoe? Honestly!
If I remember right, there is a play pic about a photographer being on the court and interfering. The ruling was OOB and taking his press credentials! I believe that this is a very similar situation. |
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