I would be on the sidelines throwing up.

I don't do too well in anti-gravity situations. :)

Seriously this is a 1 in a google play, but let's consider the possibility.

Say the shooter is Spud Webb and that the try was taken from very near the basket so that it could end rather quickly and be tapped by a tall teammate right away.

This is just an intellectual exercise anyway.

OOPs, my bad.

Yikes. I suppose one view would be a personal foul and the basket counts. no team control. Try ended. Airborne player is no longer an airborne shooter.

And another view might be to consider what type of foul occurs when the airborne shooter fouls (not intentionally or flagrantly). ;)

When does a player cease to be an airborne shooter? 4-4-1 :D

When he returns to the floor. But in this case I suppose when there is no longer a try - when the subsequent tap started?? Unless they can levitate this would be the only sitch I can think of where a try would end before he returned to the floor. That's why I think a ref could say it was an alley oop pass and not an attempt. :confused:

4-1-1 says when released the ball "on a try". In this sitch it is no longer a try or could be argued it never was. That's my story and I'm stickin to it.

You know the rule; you cite the rule, yet you then want to suppose something else. WHY? :confused: I don't understand the need to try to fabricate something new.

For example:

If A1 goes airborne and releases a try for goal that is blocked by B2, but then A1 charges into B1 would you say that since the try had ended that this was not a PC foul? Would you award the bonus at the other end?

What if A1's try is goaltended by B2 and then B1 fouls A1 while he is still airborne?

Google is an internet company (ticker GOOG). The number 10^100 is googol. Thank you for your attention to this small matter.

Oh, and the Russian novelist is Gogol. ;)

Should have stopped there. He ceases to be an airborne shooter when and only when he returns to the floor.
Otherwise, if it was when the try ends, it would cease as soon as the shot was blocked, or the dunk went through, or....

...and a googly is something they do in cricket. Kinda like a slider I think.

I thought googly is what I get when I watch Michelle Pfeiffer.

no that's gooey

Huh.

I thought gooey had something to do with Twinkies.

Thank you, coach.

(That one's for rainmaker. :D )