What the heck do you call????

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Except that his point was to ask whether its a dribble if it doesn't hit the backboard but only the rim (or perhaps nothing at all....an airball). Is the rim considered part of the backboard for the purposes of this rule or is the rim simply another object floating in space? If the latter (or it was an airball), you can't have illegal dribble but you could have traveling.

In this case, who cares? Wrong signal, maybe, same result.