How About This One

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Originally Posted by rockyroad

Got a call from a buddy to tell me about this play from his daughter's JV game Friday night...

Opening jump (jumpers facing right direction). Tip to Visiting player who takes off toward Home basket (no backcourt violation or anything). V pulls up and shoots 3 pointer - gets hit in arm - ref blows whistle - ball goes in the Home team basket.

Refs huddle up (3 person) and discuss it for a minute or so and then do this (get ready, cause it's pretty good):

1) Count the basket and give Home 3 points.

2)Put V shooter on the line to shoot 1 free throw - AT HOME TEAM'S BASKET!!!

3)V purposefully misses free throw and slams ball off backboard, and refs call a free throw violation and give Home the ball under their own basket!:

Silly monkeys.

Did the refs actually know the player was shooting at the wrong basket? It's been said throughout several posts, but I'm going to say it as an agreement and to put it all in one post instead of throughout several posts:

Common foul. Only two points are awarded, scorer should make note of player shooting in wrong basket (this is a bad moment, I used to scorekeep for biddy and high school years ago). Ball is taken out of bounds nearest to the spot of the foul and given to the team that just got fouled. Make sure teams are going in the correct direction this time.