2 seconds are on the clock and the team must go the length of the court to score. The team inbounds the ball and the guy heaves a 100 ft shot.....whiile the ball is in the air, the horn goes off and the ball finally comes down and hits the floor and bounces in...does the basket count or is the ball dead once it hits the floor?
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It's dead once it hits the floor.
Eh that doesn't really prove it. I think its dead when it hits the floor but I can't find the rule.
Eh that doesn't really prove it. I think its dead when it hits the floor but I can't find the rule.
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Actually, this one is easy. The basket does not count, as the player had to shoot it from somewhere out of bounds.
The court is only 94 feet long, making a 100 foot shot an improbability if not an impossibility. :0corn
But ignoring that answer, the ball is dead when it hits the floor, as the is considered the end of the shot attempt.
If the shot is taken inbounds,
outside the 3 point arc, it counts as a 3 point shot, DUH :SIB and the ball is not dead until any player that is on the floor touches the ball or the ball goes out of bounds.....
I think..... :facepalm:
outside the 3 point arc, it counts as a 3 point shot, DUH :SIB and the ball is not dead until any player that is on the floor touches the ball or the ball goes out of bounds.....
I think..... :facepalm:
BP - I did read the link, and the NBA's answer.
I did ref high school and college baskeball for 15 years (stopped 10 years ago). My intrepretation had always been when it hit the floor, the shot attempt ends.
And reading the link provided, it discusses the shot being "in flight". Once it hits the floor, in my opinion, it is no longer "in flight".
Maybe it is an NBA only variation, maybe the rule changed in HS or college since then, or maybe I had the wrong understanding.
That's how I see it - right or wrong I guess.
I'm pretty sure dead on the bounce.
The link provided makes no reference to contact with the floor, which should kill the shot, esp with buzzer going.
The link provided makes no reference to contact with the floor, which should kill the shot, esp with buzzer going.
