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[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Nevada's point is that by rule you can't call an unsporting T for contact involving an airborne shooter; even if the ball is dead.

I think this is a situation for which the rules are unprepared, as I'm pretty sure the gurus on the committee would prefer to see a T called for this action (even if you don't call it for hanging due to the player underneath).

Maybe it could be remedied by revising the denfitions so that a player is no longer an airborne shooter once he does a chin-up on the rim.

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

+1...once he hangs on the rim, for safety purposes or illegally, he is no longer an airborne shooter.

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

I think it's pretty obvious that this wasn't what the airborne exception was meant for, and if I'm going to make a call here it's going to be a technical foul for an unsporting act.

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

And, plain and simple, that is what happened.

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Exactly!!!!

Unfortunately, several people seem to be advocating applying their own personal philosophies to this play instead of enforcing the rules as written as the NFHS has instructed us to do several times over the past few years in POEs.

Just because one doesn't like the outcome that the rules generate, that doesn't permit an individual to apply them differently (some might even contend incorrectly).