the stratosphere
Years ago
ok - if I built a court today - would you expect circles at the top of the key ?
or just a foul shooting line and 3 point line ?
we could mark u10/12 shooting spots and obviously keyway sides and hashmarks etc
circle at the top of the keyway under todays rules is nothing more than marks on the floor
Maybe one day they will bring back the jump ball
foul shots need to be taken from within the semi-circle
the stratosphere
Years ago
righto so I will have to plan for a semi circle - but no dotted line on the inside
Cairns
Years ago
Just stop being all technical and cute and paint a normal court bruh.
Dunkin' Dan
Years ago
"foul shots need to be taken from within the semi-circle"
... which in reality is irrelevant, since no one takes free throws from anywhere other than near the middle of the line.
If I was painting my own court I probably wouldn't bother with the circle. I don't think it helps much with orienting yourself on the court either (unlike the keyway and 3 point arcs)
Why is the sky blue? Oh hang on, I just had a odd thought and first thing I did was post it.
Why shouldn't gay people have the same rights as straight people? Oh hang on, I just had a perfectly legitimate question but I shouldn't post it, I should just accept the way things currently are without questioning them.
The Situation
Years ago
Nothing is stopping the gays from having circled keyways.
They paint the semi circle so they can call it a key way
Thats classic Situation! End seen, that post nailed it.
PeterJohn
Years ago
^ but these days everyone calls it "the paint"
Dunkin' Dan - at least in the NCAA, the "inside the (semi) circle" rule is about preventing a running jump into the shot. It was originally introduced to prevent Wilt Chamberlain's technique of using a running take-off to dunk the free throw (from an article in the Toledo Blade newspaper, Nov 28, 1956)
Dunkin' Dan
Years ago
All the more reason to scrap the circle. We should be encouraging free throw dunks ;)
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