Basketball headbutt loses Austrian game
May 17, 2008
Ivanhoe from Austria emails:
…as I live in Austria, I follow the Austrian League very closely. Last week, game 5 took place between Basket Swans Gmunden (the ULEB Cup Team who lost against Juventut, as you know) and Fürstenfeld.
In a crucial game 5, something strange happened. Fürstenfeld had posession up 1 and about 3-1/2 minutes to play in the fourth quarter. They lost the ball. Peter Hütter of Gmunden came up with the ball and headed for a fastbreak, no one near him for an uncontested dunk, but as he dunked the ball hard, the ball went through the hoop, bounced off his head and went out again. The ball never went through the net completly. Fürstenfeld gained control and hit a 3 pointer. Ball game. That’s not something that happens everyday.
Here is the video:
Let’s look up the FIBA definition for a made basket: A player scores when he manages to put the ball into the basket from above. To me, it looks like the player did exactly that. Now Ivanhoe says that the ball has to go through the net? All we know is that Furstenfeld went to the next round of the playoffs and Gmunden is out.
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Published by Tobias · Filed Under Austria, Basketball video, Scandal, ULEB cup, center, funny notes
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Euroleague 2008/09
I checked quickly the complete rules by FIBA which say
16.1.1 A goal is made when a live ball enters the basket from above and remains within or passes through the basket.
16.1.2 The ball is considered to be within the basket when the slightest part of the ball is within and below the level of the ring.
So when you check the clip, the the ball flies back out of the basket after hitting Peter Hütter’s head.
According to 16.1.2.: the baskets counts when the ball is below the level of the ring which was the case here I guess
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