"Continuous" issues...

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Well you focus so much on rules, but the rules do not say that we are to mind read. If the player did everything that looks like a shot, they are shooting.

Quite the contrary..that is exactly what we have to do many times. This whole no mind-reading mantra has gotten so twisted out of context. The only place it has ever been referenced is in the context of a ball thrown from behind the 3-point line that goes in.

When fouled, we have to decide what they were attempting to do at the time of the foul..not observe what they do after. They may not even get the ball to a point where it is certain, yet we must still judge what they were trying to do. How many times have you seen a player no where near shooting who turns and throws the ball at the basket after they realize they were fouled??

If they do what looks like a shot up to the time of a foul, they're shooting, even if they subsequently pass. If the only thing that looks like a shot is after the contact, they were not shooting.