Shot over the Backboard

[bob jenkins]

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Originally posted by Smoke on 03-14-2000 12:50 AM
Okay so you are saying if the person is was about 15-16 ft out like this guy was and is right near the sideline he shot it and it sure looked like it passed over th backboard or at least parrell. You sayinf you are inbounds than it impossible to do this?? I will have to go to the gym some time and see. I was fairly high in the arena so maybe I did noy see it right
Thanks

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1) You don't need to go to the gym for this. Just use the diagram in the front of the rules book.

2) A player 15-16 feet out and near the sideline would have to shoot the ball *toward* the end-line. It's impossible for the ball to go over the backboard and still go in the basket without hitting something behind the backboard (assuming we don't have abig gust of wind that causes the ball to reverse course.)

3) Maybe this helps explain why officials don't sit "fairly high in the arena."