Basketball rules question

Another rules query: If someone shoots an airball -- and in the case of girls' high school basketball that can sometimes mean, 'throws a soft line drive' -- and another player grabs it, does that person get credited for a rebound?

 

If it can reasonably be considered a shot, then it must have a rebound. So, yes.

 

If it can reasonably be considered a shot, then it must have a rebound. So, yes.
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But a blocked shot doesn't have a rebound, does it?

 

But a blocked shot doesn't have a rebound, does it?
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It has every time I've taken stats. I could be wrong, but I don't think I am.

 

No, that's not a legal shot, and it was disallowed when Bird took it.

 

I'm just going to keep the random questions coming. I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this one, but it invariably starts an argument anyways: say I attempt a shot, a legit attempt, at say a floater or something and the shot is an airball but somehow I come up with the ball without it touching anyone or anything. Travel?

 

When a basketball goes over the backboard, but does not touch any wires, shot clock, etc. and comes down on the other side in bounds, is it out of bounds? YES

In case that's not clear, say for example someone takes a shot from the right wing and it hits the front of the rim and bounds high enough to clear the backboard going over on the left side is it that out of bounds? YES

And if it is out of bounds as soon as it goes over the backboard, what if it manages to just bounce along the top and falls off to the side w/o going over, is that out? NO

 

It has every time I've taken stats. I could be wrong, but I don't think I am.
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all blocks have to have a rebound because, at least in stat software, the rebound accounts for who gains possession of the loose ball

 

Any shot taken, blocked or not, results either in a basket or a rebound. If the missed shot (even a blocked shot) goes out of bounds without clear possesion gained, it is a team rebound awarded to the team that gets the ball.

Even missed first free throws are rebounds.

Go to any NBA box score and add up the shots taken. Then add up the baskets (FT, 2 pt or 3 pt) and rebounds (include team or dead ball rebounds) and they will be equal. If not, someone screwed up.