Basket Interference?

[bsktball_ref]

While I appreciate your being blunt, your logic fails. I am sticking with NF rules here.

It is a stretch to say that casebook play 10.3.4SitB(a) is "exactly the same as the initial post on this thread".

The initial thread states that this is a dunk attempt. I'll quote, "A1 jumps for a try near the basket but loses his/her balance after releasing the ball. A1 grasps the basket to prevent injury. The ball: (a) is in the basket or on the ring while A1 is hanging on the ring."

The aforementioned situation is not a generic "try." By definition it is a dunk. And in the casebook example he grasps the ring following the try. In the exaple here, he is grasping the ring as part of a dunk or stuff. And--"Dunking or stuffing is legeal and is not basket interference" I don't believe that the spirit of the rule is ignored when the initial part of the dunk fails.

If you use your logic then you open a new problem- How are we going to decide when a dunk is successful? If it is not perfectly clean, should we call BI everytime? Please.

I don't mind being wrong. I have been wrong before. I would like to feel better about your arguement before I decide that it was done wrong here and before I need to face this decision in a HS game.