Throw or try ?

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

The two situations described in the OP is the result of unintended consequences.

Prior to the three-point FG being adopted, a try or tap ended when the ball was touched by another player, i.e., A1 attempts a FG with one second on the game clock and after he releases the ball, B1 touches (read partially blocks A1's attempt) a) before, or (b) after the buzzer sounds to end the period, and in both (a) and (b) the ball passes through the basket after the buzzer sounds to the end the period. Has A1 scored a two-point FG? No, B1's touching of the ball ended A1's attempt.

This rule lasted for one year after the three-point FG was adopted and the rule was changed to allow the basket to be scored: two-point or three-point depending upon where A1 released his attempt.

Personally, I was not in favor of the rule change for reasons that I will not go into now, but that is today's history lesson.

MTD, Sr.

[Adam]

Mark, are you positive about the one year portion of your post?

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by Adam

Mark, are you positive about the one year portion of your post?

Adam:

I am 61 years old and this is my 42nd year officiating basketball. My knees have told me that they are not going to climb up into the attic to go through old rules books tonight (I have arthritis in both knees and had my right knee scoped in 2003, and I think I have developed tendonitis in it), but my fading memory wants to tell me that the definition of when an attempt ends did not change at the same time the three-point FG was adopted. It has been about twenty years since the three-point FG was adopted and I am a bald old geezer now.

MTD, Sr.

[bob jenkins]

I prefer the NCAA interp on this (benefit of the doubt to the offense, but if the ball clearly would not have gone it without the tip, it's 2) and probably will use it in HS if it happens.