Was he in the act of shooting? What is continuous motion? Let's talk about it and figure it out.

This Rule Review segment is going over plays involving the shooting and continuous motion. This video is dedicated to educating basketball officials on recognizing how to properly identify a when a player is in the act of shooting and when the continuous motion rule applies. Watching actual videos of plays involving shooting, along with some basic instruction explaining the rule, helps officials learn faster and retain rule information better. We can all learn together by continually discussing the rules as they are written in the NFHS rules book and viewing actual high school basketball games reinforces that learning.

Because the act of shooting is largely left to the discretion of the official, many different interpretations can exist. Determining when the act of shooting begins is a difficult task to take on and the answer can very directly affect the next factor, which is continuous motion. This rule seems to be misapplied, or forgotten altogether, more often that the act of shooting. Because these rules seem to cause such a polarizing view amongst officials, this will be the focus of what we will be reviewing in this segment of Rule Review. All video clips we reference in this segment on shooting come from high school games and focus solely on the NFHS high school rules book.

Video #1
A player make a fast break and is fouled in the process with the ball going through the basket on a routine layup. So why did the official rule this no shot?
Video #2
This video shows a player make a spin move around his defender and after getting fouled continues to spin and shoot the ball. Again the officials rules no shot. Why?
Video #3
A shooting foul is called on this play but there was no try for a goal. How can this be?
Video #4
An airborne shooter gets fouled and the official rules it in the act of shooting. But when is a player shooting and when are they not?

Watching video clips is a good way to stay connected to the skill of officiating basketball but true education and learning can more effectively be attained when each video is annotated with diagrams and shading to point out key teaching points.

The Officials Institute, and the Rule Review segment, creates videos that don't leave you guessing about whether there was a foul, violation or not. Even though we cannot officiate in slow motion or freeze frames, by watching and reviewing video video in this fashion, we are able to "retrain our brain" so we can start seeing plays more accurately when we do see them in real time and increase our ability to get the call right.

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All rules referenced in this video are taken from the official rules book provided by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). To find out more about the NFHS, you can visit them at https://nfhs.org/