Goal tending?
 

Say if a shot is up but the ball lingers around the rim, it looks like it's going in but haven't, a defender then decides to jump up and blow the ball which affects the movement of the ball and end up not going in, does it count as goal tending? I know it requires strong blow but sometimes it does affect the ball movement esp when it's hanging on the rim.

Blow as in air through lips?

I'm going to go ahead and say in the history of mankind, no person has ever had an appreciably effect on the flight of the ball by using such tactics.

And no, it wouldn't count as goaltending. Goaltending requires touching the ball.

Though confused by your choice of verbs, I'd recommend a thorough review of the actual definitions of both goaltending and basket interference. That will yield several benefits: use of rulebook terminology when describing a play, distinction between the two violations, and the answer to your question. After that, resubmit your question, which I think might be a good one, add the answer you come up with, and see if you don't get some constructive feedback on the situation.
Just my recommendation. Others may know what you're talking about.

No one who would try this is capable of jumping so high that his / her lips get 10' off the ground.

Again, I have to ask where you live, and what plants are you are legally allowed to smoke in that state.

"Pass the dutchie upon the left hand side."

Peace

I sure am intrigued by the increase of vocabulary I gain from this forum. This term you mention here, is that like the hair style that looks like goose poop?

I'm pretty sure he hails from Amsterdam. :o

Well, I actually hail from Amsterdam myself, so that would be very ironic. :cool:

I would also like to add that: "If you can remember the 1960's you were not there."

MTD, Sr.

Let's Go To The Videotape ...
 

Wrong Sport ...
 

Misunderstood ???
 

A player cannot touch the ball, ring, or net while the ball is on the ring or within the basket. A player cannot touch the ball if it is in the imaginary cylinder above the ring. These are examples of basket interference. It is legal to touch the ring or the net if the ball is above the ring and not touching the ring, even if the ball is in the imaginary cylinder above the ring. It is legal to hang on the ring if a player is avoiding an injury to himself or herself or another player.

The backboard has nothing to do with goaltending. Goaltending is when a player touches the ball during a try, or tap, while it is in its downward flight, entirely above the basket ring level, and has the possibility of entering the basket. On most layups, the ball is going up after it contacts the backboard. It is legal to pin the ball against the backboard if it still on the way up and is not in the imaginary cylinder above the basket. Slapping the backboard is neither basket interference nor is it goaltending and points cannot be awarded. A player who strikes a backboard, during a tap, or a try, so forcefully that it cannot be ignored because it is an attempt to draw attention to the player, or a means of venting frustration, may be assessed a technical foul. When a player simply attempts to block a shot and accidentally slaps the backboard it is neither a violation nor is it a technical foul.

I'm just wondering how is it that "the ball lingers around the rim"? Has he been hanging out with a bad group of kids and is standing in front of the no loitering sign?

If this tactic had any impact at all on the ball, it would knock the ball in. Not out.

Offensive BI is just as much a violatiion as defensive BI.

Yeah, but that's not the OP. :)

I actually thought of that as soon as I posted, but figured I'd leave it out there.

If an offensive player can get up there long enough to blow on the ball, at the right exact moment, and actually have an effect....
Good for him.

Only if it occurs on an aircraft carrier when half of the ship, where the court is situated, has crossed the International Date Line, during the westbound portion of the voyage and a solar eclipse is forecast within the upcoming week. My authority is from channeling the late, great Saint Curmudgeon, formerly of these parts, exalted master of minutiae.

I think perhaps I detect the aura of a supernatural creature of Scandinavian folklore, whose race was thought to have carried massive stones into the countryside where they live in hills, mountains, caves, or under bridges. They are stupid, large, brutish, hairy, long-nosed, and bug-eyed, and may also have multiple heads or horns.