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Originally posted by BktBallRef
The intent is to penalize a team who interferes with a ball when there's a possiblity there could be a basket.
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Tony, I'm not trying to be a smart-@$$, honest. But how do you know that's the intent? A couple people earlier in the thread tried to say that the intent was to prevent interference with a try. Now you say it's to prevent interference anytime a basket might be scored. Maybe the intent is simply to make the cylinder and basket sacrosanct. (This is the case in women's lacrosse, for example.) Nobody at any time may violate the cylinder or the basket when the ball is there (except when carrying the ball into the cylinder for a dunk).
I just think that with the instructions and rules as decisive and clear as they are, they need to be followed, rather than call it differently from the rulebook b/c we think we know the intent. Just my opinion. Again, it's funny that we can't come to an agreement on this.
Sat Aug 02, 2003, 05:23pm
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