Air Pressure

[JCrow]

OK....OK.....I have been involved in enough Keyboard Karate this month. I want to start a Post with minimal personal potential for trouble.

My PET Peave? Lately, at the kids games I Ref....all the Y has are dead balls. Not 100% dead but dead enough that the 5-6 and 7-8 Graders have to slam them down to get them to back up on a dribble.

As an old player, I know that the game balls I played with actually bounced back up. An outside shot, if it hit the rim just right....could bounce up and hit the top of the backboard pretty easy. You could lose a dribble up at your shoulder and in 1969 even be called for high dribble.

So.....I know what the Rulebook says...dropped from 6 feet the top of the ball should return to 49-54" BUT...how the heck can you actually measure it? You'd need a stop action camera.

Is there a Simple Trick for proving that a ball is dead other than plain old experience? C'mon this is a challenge to the scientific minds out there.