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Had this same thing happened last night, we played on. Nobody said a word.
If someone had asked, I would have told them, it looked like it the side to me. ![]() I think you can over analyze and officiate these situations.....Catch the big stuff. But it does make for good entertainment over my lunch hour. |
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I say it's out. If the ball hits the corner, forget about any spin thereafter, it's still hitting both in bounds and out of bounds simultaneously. Wouldn't that be the same as a ball that touches a piece of the boundary line and in bounds simultaneously?
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Y'all are mistaken when you say the only way a ball can rebound toward the end line is if it hit the back. The ball is round. Did we forget that?
Go stand directly on the side of the backboard. Throw the ball at the side such that it hits the side of the backboard on the corner nearest out of bounds. Watch it bounce toward the end line ... because the ball is round.
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The only "proof" it hit the back, based on angle alone, would be if it went toward the center of the base of the backboard after coming from outside the edge of the backboard. Better... unless you KNOW it hit the back, it didn't hit the back.
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If the ball is behind the backboard, then the angle is used to determine where the ball hit. Benefit of the doubt to "the ball is NOT behind the backboard when released". |
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Think of the ball as a globe. The equator has to hit squarely on the side of the board for it to bounce straight back. As you get further from the center, the angle of the rebound will increase. If the Arctic circle is where the contact occurs, the angle can be quite dramatic. So does this contact on the side cause the ball to wrap around and simultaneously/immediately afterward contact the back? When in doubt (which will be almost all the time in this case) I will assume it did not.
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