Missed FT Attempt. How would you handle it?

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

It's a good thing that none of the rebounders got hit on the head with the rim. The rim, falling from a height of ten feet, would have had a lot of force at impact. Remember your high school physics? Isaac Newton's Second Law Of Motion? F=ma.

To be more specific, in this case, F=mg, where "g" is approximately 9.8ms^2, the gravitational acceleration of an object in a vacuum near the surface of the earth. But of course it's not a vacuum because there is friction from the air on the way down. Not that the poor girl will give said friction much credit when the rim hits her on the head.

I once majored in physics before I took up basketball officiating.