Should have been an assist then according to all the info i can find.
Seems the stats guys missed one
In basketball can you get an assist by throwing an ally-oop pass from out of bounds?
3 years in a cave asked 7 years ago
If the same pass would earn you an assist on the court, would you earn the same stat from a pass originating from an inbounds pass?
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only living boy in NY answered 7 years ago
yes ofcourse.
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Your Uncle Dodge! answered 7 years ago
Yes. As long as the player you pass to scores, you get the assist.
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Beef answered 7 years ago
dwight howard did it this year to win a game not sure who paseed it probaly on youtube. so yes
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riqtan answered 7 years ago
Yes, an assist in basketball is the pass that led directly to a basket.
So an alley oop pass ia an assist regardless if it came from out of bounds.
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varunb007 answered 7 years ago
Yes, it is indeed an assist.
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NorthK answered 7 years ago
Yes. As long as it leads to a score by a field goal. Meaning that the player was "assisting" in the basket
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assist_(basketball)
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t m answered 7 years ago
Yes you can. If you want an example to verify, look at the play by play from the Spurs/Magic game where Dwight got an alley-oop from out of bounds to end the game:
0:00 Orlando 20 Sec. timeout
0:00 104-106 Dwight Howard makes two point shot (Hedo Turkoglu assists)
^^ Turkoglu got the assist and he was the one making the pass from out of bounds.
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https://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playbyplay...
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LanDo821 answered 7 years ago
im a ref and yes it is
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tweety answered 7 years ago
Yes, absolutely you can, and the Howard alley-oop example is perfect to illustrate that point.
However, if the pass accidentally goes in the hoop by itself on the pass from out of bounds, it does not count as a basket.
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qwerty answered 7 years ago
yep
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AdamMs answered 7 years ago
yes
These are all just answers from regular people like you and me so take it for whats its worth (one of them is a ref apparently) but all of these people say that you can get an assist from an out of bounds pass and they seem to cite an ally oop inbounds pass to Dwight howard that was credited as an assist.