Designated spot after timeout / made basket?

[just another ref]

Originally Posted by Cobra

I, personally, don't like this one, because not only is it inaccurate from a rulebook standpoint, I don't consider it to be a good description of a foul occurring before the motion which habitually proceeds the try has begun.

I don't consider it to be a description at all, but merely a figure of speech which conveys information.

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by just another ref

I don't consider it to be a description at all, but merely a figure of speech which conveys information.

Whether you agree or disagree, the point they're making is that it mattereth not what you think this figure of speech means. It only matters what the hearer thinks it means. If it means something else to the hearer, then you have not conveyed the information you intended.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by just another ref

I don't consider it to be a description at all, but merely a figure of speech which conveys information.

While it* is sometimes correct, it (too often) gets interpreted as an absolute. Then, when the absolute correctly isn't called, fans, coaches, players wonder why.

So, don't use it.

* - "It" can be over the back, reach, on the floor, etc.