Tipped Throw-In Pass
SITUATION: A1's throw-in is tipped by B1 standing outside the arc and the throw passes through A's basket. Are two or three points awarded?
Option A, 2 POINTS: 5-2-1, "A successful try, tap or thrown ball
from the field by a player who is located behind the team's own ...arc counts three points." But since the thrown ball did not originate "from the field" it cannot count for three points and Team A scores two points
two points.
Option B, 3 POINTS: Just as 5.2.1D (A1's throw-in from near division line deflected by defender B1 standing at the A's FT line goes through A's basket...score two points for team A), by extension, three points is scored if B1 is standing outside the three-point arc.
By rule, which is correct? Or do we have an rules anomaly here?
(Sorry for not embedding video clip . . . looked real cruddy when I tried to)