[Big Jim]

I'm not saying the way I've done it in the past is correct, but I've always given an assist to the passer if his pass lead directly to a basket. If he throws a 3/4 court pass to a wide open player who dribbles once, twice or three times by made no other offensive moves other than going straight to the basket un guraded I gave an assist. Now if a passer throws a pass to player on the block who head fakes, gets his man in the air then scores, no assist. The pass didn't lead directly to the score, the head fake or post move did.

Now going out on the limb....if it's a two on one and the passer gives the ball up to his teammate who was fouled......and he hits his free-throws (both), did the pass lead directly to the basket....or score. I gave an assist.

This is a good way of looking at it. I always thought it was a good idea to give an assist after the free throw thing, but it's not officially an assist. I used to lobby for those to no avail.