[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by SC Official

NFHS you are not supposed to bounce the ball across the paint ever. That doesn’t mean that it never happens or that it makes any sense, just what the manual says.

Same thing with IAABO mechanics. I've never done it in an interscholastic game assigned by my local IAABO board assigner.

That being said, I'd be lying if I said that I never did it in a Catholic middle school game, recreation, travel, AAU, etc.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Every single pregame I have includes: Put the ball in play where it goes out of bounds, or where the foul, or the violation, occurs. If the lead has to move across the lane to administer a throwin on the opposite free throw lane line extended, I don't mind moving across the basket line as the trail. And as the lead, I will pick the throwin spot where, by rule, it's supposed to be, even if it means sending my trail partner across the basket line. That's for IAABO board commissioner assigned interscholastic games.

Now back when I was working recreation, travel, etc., with double and triple headers, it was generally deemed acceptable as the lead to bounce the ball across the lane to administer throwins, thus avoiding a need for the trail to move across the basket line. Sometimes the lead "cheated" by inbounding on the "wrong" side of the lane. Keeps the game moving. Same thing for the twenty years I worked a Catholic middle school league double headers where the otherwise strict assigner allowed us to use "relaxed" mechanics.