which basket is which?

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally posted by Mark Dexter

Sorry, Mark, I can't quite understand you. You're speaking metric again.

Knock off the metric put downs. The metric system is a system of measurement. And it is far superior to the English system.

Regarding baskets, it is just a matter how the different rules committees define whose basket is whose. All I did is point out how these definitions are in the different rules codes. It appears that the U.S.A./Canada based codes (NBCOUSAC, NFHS, NCAA, NBA/WNBA) wants the teams to shoot at their own baskets and defend their opponents baskets. The rest of the world wants just the opposite.

FYI: NBCOUSAC -- National Basketball Committee of the United States and Canada, which split into the NFHS and NCAA in 1978 or 79, I can never remember without looking at my old rules books.