I hope this one runs to 10 pages, and several bags of popcorn!

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by rainmaker

When the ball goes up through the bottom of the net, it's a violation.

Naw, that ain't true at all. It's legal for a ball to go up through the bottom of the net as long as the ball doesn't pass completely through the basket while doing so. "Completely" is the key word; the whole ball has to go above the basket ring from below in order to have a violation. Rule 9-4 and case book play 9.4. The "basket" is defined in R1-10-1.

Of course, Nevada is gonna show up sometime and tell us about one certain play that will never occur- in my lifetime anyway---> if a ball gets tangled inside the net and the ball and net somehow then both go above the ring. Nevada will tell you that one isn't a violation according to a strict reading of the rule. Might happen too sometime...in an alternate universe. So.....be nice and humor him.