Basket interference v. goal tending

[Kajun Ref N Texas]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

So, which option do you prefer?
1. Add the backboard to the current BI rule.
2. Make hitting the backboard BI anytime a try is in flight.
3. Make it BI if done while the try is in flight and the rim shakes enough to alter the shot.
4. Another one?

I'm not quite ready to bow to your common sense yet.

Why is it a violation to hit the rim or net while the ball is on the rim?

Supposedly, because it may alter the ball while on the rim (though I have no idea how hitting the net could alter the ball, but tha's another discussion).

If that is the case, then hitting the backboard while the ball is on the rim is more likely to, or at least as likely to, alter the ball as hitting the rim or net, so why is the backboard not included in the rule?

Common sense to me, and at least to rwest.

[Adam]

I've offered my theory on why. I've also yet to see a player actually hit the backboard while the ball is in the cylinder; nor have I heard or read anyone who has seen it. Everytime I've seen this slap, it happened as the ball was on the way. So adding the backboard to the current BI rule would do nothing.

[Kajun Ref N Texas]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I've offered my theory on why. I've also yet to see a player actually hit the backboard while the ball is in the cylinder; nor have I heard or read anyone who has seen it. Everytime I've seen this slap, it happened as the ball was on the way. So adding the backboard to the current BI rule would do nothing.

You don't ever see the rim getting hit, but it's still in the rules.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Kajun Ref N Texas

You don't ever see the rim getting hit, but it's still in the rules.

You've never seen a BI call for hitting the rim?
Okay, that aside. There are a couple of things you never see but are in the rules.
Hitting the ball with a fist, 10 seconds on a free throw, players using tobacco.

Back to the rim. The possibility of actually impacting the shot by hitting the rim is exponentially higher than if the backboard is hit. Common sense tells me that.

[Kajun Ref N Texas]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

You've never seen a BI call for hitting the rim?
Okay, that aside. There are a couple of things you never see but are in the rules.
Hitting the ball with a fist, 10 seconds on a free throw, players using tobacco.

Back to the rim. The possibility of actually impacting the shot by hitting the rim is exponentially higher than if the backboard is hit. Common sense tells me that.

I think you are missing the point, which is, hitting the backboard is just as likely to alther the ball on the rim as hitting the rim, especially with todays storger rims.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Kajun Ref N Texas

I think you are missing the point, which is, hitting the backboard is just as likely to alther the ball on the rim as hitting the rim, especially with todays storger rims.

I didn't miss this point, it hasn't been made yet. I question how you can say moving the rim is just as easy to do by hitting the backboard as it by actually hitting the rim.

[Kajun Ref N Texas]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I didn't miss this point, it hasn't been made yet. I question how you can say moving the rim is just as easy to do by hitting the backboard as it by actually hitting the rim.

Because when you move the backboard you move the rim.