Question

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

The very point of the rule was ONLY to remove judgement of try vs. pass...to treat both as a try if it goes in.

I agree that this was the intent of the rule change.

NOTHING else was changed.

This, however, is simply not true. The rule says that ANY thrown ball yada, yada, yada. ANY.

I ask again....when does the "thrown ball" cease to be a thrown ball? Given that there is no explicit and independant definition, we're left with it ending in the same way as a try

That is a totally arbitrary conclusion. Why not say that the thrown ball ends when it is controlled or given additional impetus by another player. That seems equally reasonable to me.

And your suggestion that "the rule effectively indicates that we should treat the thrown ball as a try" is also simply not true. If it were true, then we would award 3 free throws to the thrower if s/he were fouled trying to throw the alley-oop. We're not going to do that.