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Old Sun Dec 04, 2011, 06:31pm
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Unusual play (Please help)
A1 dribbles to his basket, tosses the ball off the backboard, catches the ball, then dunks. Is this a legal play?
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Old Sun Dec 04, 2011, 06:37pm
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A1 dribbles to his basket, tosses the ball off the backboard, catches the ball, then dunks. Is this a legal play?
Yep...a ball that is thrown off a team's own backboard is, for the purposes of traveling or illegal dribbles, treated the same as if it were a try.
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Old Sun Dec 04, 2011, 07:00pm
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Old Sun Dec 04, 2011, 09:52pm
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Thanks so much!
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Old Mon Dec 05, 2011, 12:24am
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If you have a copy of the NFHS Case Book, this is play 9.5 part a.
Ruling: Legal play.
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