Duke-Louisville foul no continuation clip (Dieng/Plumlee 2nd half)

[twocentsworth]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Once again... gather does not equal shooting. It might, usually when going towards the basket, but it isn't automatic. In this case, he was going away from the basket.

What caused him to change the direction in which he was moving? (Answer: the foul by the defender).

Once the offensive player starts his habitual shooting motion, nowhere in the rule does it specify a direction or location on the court that the offensive player must be in to be considered "in the act of shooting" (see the 3 shots awarded the Charlotte player vs Richmond during the A10 Conference Tournament).

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by twocentsworth

What caused him to change the direction in which he was moving? (Answer: the foul by the defender).

He was going away before the foul....so that doesn't help your point much.

Originally Posted by twocentsworth

Once the offensive player starts his habitual shooting motion, nowhere in the rule does it specify a direction or location on the court that the offensive player must be in to be considered "in the act of shooting" (see the 3 shots awarded the Charlotte player vs Richmond during the A10 Conference Tournament).

All good, if he had actually started any motion looking like a shot prior to the foul. He hadn't. At the time he was fouled, he could have been shooting, passing, or stopping. The shot looked like an afterthought that he put up after getting fouled. If he was going to the basket when he got fouled, I'm using my brain to decide what he was doing at the time of the foul and will inclined to call that a shooting, but not when he is going away from the basket and only turns toward the basket after getting fouled.