Basketball stat question

Um ... an airball is a shot attempt, too.

 

My understanding was always that it was a shot because otherwise it couldn't be blocked.

 

How can it be a shot if it doesn't hit the rim? In college and the pros, the shot clock doesn't reset for an airball.
If the shooting team recovers, it's nothing. If the defensive team gets it, it's a turnover.

 

This is more of a style issue than anything ...

7-of-11 shooting or 7 of 11 shooting?

 

With hypens. It's a compound modifier, at least the way I was taught it is.

 

Way I was taught...

He scored 14 points on 7-of-11 shooting.
He hit 7 of 11 shots from the floor.

 

Batman,

Say your teammate shoots the ball, it hits the backboard (but not the rim) and you grab it and put it in. Are you giving your teammate an assist? Or a shot attempt and a rebound for you (even though, by your definition, since the shot clock would NOT have reset in that case, there was no shot)?

This should help set you straight:

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:NE2MkR5uMeQJ:www.ncaa.org/library/statistical/basketball_stats_manual/2005/2005_basketball_stats.pdf+ncaa+basketball+statistics+handbook&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us

Article 6. Blocked shots are counted as attempts when, in the opinion
of the statistician, the ball clearly was in flight before being blocked; or the
player was in the obvious act of shooting with the shooting hand moving
toward the basket; or the player was airborne and moving toward the bas-
ket with the intention of a dunk or layup and the ball in position for the shot.
If there is doubt about whether the player was in the act of shooting, the
interpretation shall be that he or she was not.

A.R. 6. Allen shoots and the shot is blocked by Brown. (a) Benton
gains control of the blocked shot; (b) Adams gains control of the
blocked shot; (c) Adams and Benton retrieve the ball simultaneous-
ly and a held ball is called; or (d) the ball goes out of bounds before
either team gains control. RULING: In (a), the statistician must
decide which was most important, the block by Brown or the efforts
of Benton to retrieve the blocked shot. If the statistician feels that the
block by Brown was most important, credit Brown with an individual
rebound. If the statistician feels that the efforts by Benton were most
important, credit Benton with the individual rebound. In (b), credit
Adams with an individual rebound. In (c), if Team A is awarded the
ball for a throw-in, credit Adams with an individual rebound. If Team
B is awarded the ball for a throw-in, credit either Brown or Benton
with an individual rebound. In (d), credit a team rebound to the team
that is awarded the ball for the throw-in. In all four cases, credit
Brown with a blocked shot.

 

Where is it written that a shot has to hit the rim to be counted as an attempt? You're telling me if a guy takes a jumper from the corner and it hits nothin

Where is it written a shot has to hit the rim to be counted as a shot for statistical purposes? The abbreviation FGA does not stand for "number of times the shot clock resets."

If the shooting team recovers, it's an offensive rebound. If the defensive team recovers, it's a defensive rebound.

Granted, there are occasions when it's a judgment call. But if a guy takes a jumper from the corner and it hits nothing, it's obviously a field goal attempt.

 

On every level I've ever seen basketball played, an airball is not a shot. It's either a turnover or a pass.
On the playground, if you shoot an airball and the defense recovers, they don't have to take it back outside the key.
In high school, it's a little more of gray area since there's no shot clock. But in college and pros, the shot clock doesn't reset unless it hits the rim. If it was a shot, wouldn't the shot clock, by definition, reset to reflect that a shot had been attempted?

 

I'm giving myself a shot attempt and two points. My teammate gets nothing. The intent wasn't there to assist the basket, so he gets no assist (even if the effect was the same). Since it didn't hit the rim it was no shot, and therefore no rebound.
I'll stand corrected on my original thought that blocked shots didn't count as shot attempts. I've always been fuzzy on that one. But I'm pretty adamant about airballs. One of my pet peeves is when some high school statistician gives a player 35 rebounds in a 30-25 crapfest of a game because that player was snagging bricks off the backboard and airballs.

 

And those high school statisticians are right (if the player did get 35 rebounds off bricks off the backboard and airballs). There's no exception for airballs in the definition of Field Goal Attempted.

From the first section of the NCAA statisticians' manual:

 

Uhhh, grabbing bricks and shots off the backboard are rebounds. So are balls that are intentionally tapped out by players to other players on the floor.