Lakers-Rockets
 

This series is getting really chippy really fast. Two ejections in the second half. These officials have had their hands full tonight.

I just turned it over there. Who got tossed?

Nevermind, it was Fisher and Artest.

Fisher will probably be suspended for the next game. Artest got a raw deal.

It is another example of why the NBA isn't worth watching. Yao can pick up five rinky dink fouls and the person who guarded him half the time (Gasol) only ended up with two. Star power and a Cleveland/Los Angeles final is all the douche bags like David Stern care about.

Was the play legal where Kobe ended his dribble then tossed ball of backboard, caught in the air and made the lay-up?

yes, consider it a try and a rebound

In high school would you have considered that a try? What would you have called in high school or a college game?

Artest did get hosed. Kobe elbowed him first on that rebound where they called the initial foul on Artest. That doesn't excuse Artest's actions after the fact, but they missed the original play.

yes





nothing

FYI - here's an NFHS Case Book example: *9.5 SITUATION: A1 dribbles and comes to a stop after which he/she throws the ball against: (a) his/her own backboard; (b) the opponent’s backboard; or (c) an official and catches the ball after each. RULING: Legal in (a); a team’s own backboard is considered part of that team’s “equipment” and may be used. In (b) and (c), A1 has violated; throwing the ball against an opponent’s backboard or an official constitutes another dribble, provided A1 is first to touch the ball after it strikes the official or the board. (4-4-5; 4-15-2; Fundamental 19)

NCAA has essentially the same case play as the FED case posted above. The play is legal in all codes.

A) How do you respond to a coach that starts carping about a team-fouls disparity? I ask because that is the same kind of garbage argument you're making with your Yao-Gasol case.

B) No one is forcing you to watch.