BI on Joakim Noah (video)

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by OKREF

I have a question. NFHS rules.

4-22. Goaltending occurs when a player touches the ball during a field-goal try or tap while it is in its downward flight entirely above the basket ring level and has the possibility of entering the basket in flight.

Does this mean "in the cylinder". Or just anywhere above the ring and coming down? If it means in the cylinder, then Noahs play would have been legal, correct?

It means outside the cylinder. If it's in the cylinder, then it's Basket Interference.

Different name, similar infraction, same penalty (on this type of play).

[OKREF]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

It means outside the cylinder. If it's in the cylinder, then it's Basket Interference.

Different name, similar infraction, same penalty (on this type of play).

Right. BI the ball has to be on or in the basket. In Noah's play, the ball wasn't over the rim, and the NFHS defination, I guess is not written well. Some might be interpret above the ring level as in the cylinder. All I was saying.

[rekent]

Originally Posted by OKREF

... the NFHS defination, I guess is not written well.

Well, at least this is the only poorly written, vague, or ambiguous definition or case play that they have. At least there are no incorrect or contradictory case plays and rules.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by OKREF

Right. BI the ball has to be on or in the basket. In Noah's play, the ball wasn't over the rim, and the NFHS defination, I guess is not written well. Some might be interpret above the ring level as in the cylinder. All I was saying.

Of all the things that are poorly written, that really isn't one of them.

[OKREF]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Of all the things that are poorly written, that really isn't one of them.

All I am saying is, some might read the rule as it is written and interpret it to mean as "In the cylinder".

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by OKREF

All I am saying is, some might read the rule as it is written and interpret it to mean as "In the cylinder".

Not really.

Above the level of the ring doesn't mean over the cylinder any more than above sea level means over the water. It is above a "level" a horizontal plane.

If that someone can't read that correctly, it isn't due to the way the rule is written.