Why is hanging on the rim a technical?
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Its probably guys like ISUNO1FAN who had his ego hurt all the time from someone dunking on him, and then their stubborness and inability to change prevents anyone from reveiwing it and making the game better.
I think he already covered that. Which is worse hanging on the rim? or the chest fist pumps after a basket and a foul?
I think he is clearly trying to get to the deeper heart of the issue.
at least this didnt happen lol
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvY7zv9St4w]YouTube - Adam Waddell - Best Dunk Ever![/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvY7zv9St4w]YouTube - Adam Waddell - Best Dunk Ever![/ame]
Because people would be hanging on the rim ad-nauseum. You can get a 'T' for chest thumping if you direct it at an opponent.
Or at least this didn't happen. I always wondered with this one. If Bogut hung on to the rim to prevent his fall would he have been called for the T on this dunk?
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-g5wZ5js4]YouTube - Milwaukee Bucks "Andrew Bogut" Breaks His Arm While Going For A Dunk![/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-g5wZ5js4]YouTube - Milwaukee Bucks "Andrew Bogut" Breaks His Arm While Going For A Dunk![/ame]
Hanging for safety =/= hanging for showboating. Calvin pulled himself up on the rim at least once if not twice and that's why he got T'd.
I know why he got the T. I think I'm clearly asking why should it be a T? Why should hanging be a T?
How many with authority dunks happen in a game, honestly and what is wrong with a little hanging on the rims. They can take it. The backboard technology can even take Shaq dunks now. So what is the big deal. If players don't have to worry about getting T'd up for hanging on the rim, does it prevent injury and is preventing an injury a good thing even if it hurts some poor schlubs ego?
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT9myuDG5WE]YouTube - louisville basketball player falls on his head damn[/ame]
I just had to post this one when it came up with the Bogut video.
I forgot, those kind of dunks happed All the Time. Ad-nauseum, are you kidding me? How pumped would the home crowd get and how much of a momentum changer would it be if they could do it? Next to the swat the ball into the next county, I don't think fans can get more pumped than an authority dunk. I guess we don't the fans to get excited. You must be that guy who always tells me to sit down at the game when the game gets exciting.
So him hanging on the rim made his dunk exciting? Wrong. Fizer over Mihm was ******* ridiculous and he didn't hang on the rim. Stinson-Blalock-Clark? Just a dunk, didn't hang. I'm trying to think of a dunk where Rahshon did hang on the rim and I can't. Same with Brackins.
The reason is it is against the rules to hang on the rim is because when Naismith originally planned the game with peach baskets, they would often cause splinters on the players' fingers, and thus it became a safety issue for both the players and the liability of the YMCA that they were playing in. It carries through to this day.
CycloneErik
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My senior year in high school I got T'd up once each for slapping the backboard trying to block a shot and grabbing the rim on a missed put-back dunk attempt. I want to know why those are technicals.
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Question on a play I had never seen before. In the Missouri vs. Texas A&M game an A&M player went up for a dunk. As he was dunking he was fouled, and the ball bounced high in the air. As part of his dunk he grabbed the rim and held it momentarily---while the ball was up in the air above the rim. The ball then came down through the basket. The referees counted the basket and gave him one free throw. Since he was holding the rim as the ball bounced high in the air above the rim, should this have been called offensive basket interference, no basket, and the shooter awarded two free throws?
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A player is allowed to momentarily grasp the rim on a dunk attempt to prevent injury to himself or a player underneath him. Basket interference only occurs if a player is in contact with the rim while the ball is touching the rim.
In this play, the player legally grasped the rim to regain his balance as he was fouled on the dunk attempt. The ball is still live because a shot or try doesn't end until the ball no longer has a chance to enter the basket. The player then released the rim and the ball that had bounced up in the air fell back through the basket for a legal goal, with one shot awarded for the foul.
I guess the problem is guys like OSU's Turner, Bogut, and even the Louiseville player, with the amount of momentum headed towards the basket, they would have held on to the rim much longer than "momentarily" to safely come down after the dunk, and I've seen it called a T when a guy is obviously trying to swing back so he can come down on his feet and not his back. So why is it even a T? Shouldn't the NCAA want to protect their players?
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