[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

... you would not move a spot because of a timeout.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I'm pretty sure that the interpretation, especially in the first year, was that if a player/team called a timeout during a live ball clock running situation (player control, dribbling or holding) in the front court (back court added the second year) that the subsequent throwin would be from one of the four (or eight) closest premarked designated spots, not the spot closest to where the ball was when the timeout was originally requested and granted (as we did for the past century) ... This whistle was not due to a foul or a violation, the new rule in its simplest form, but is nevertheless a stoppage in play (like a held ball, or inadvertent whistle) that requires the subsequent throwin to be at one of the four (or eight) closest premarked designated spots.

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Yes, that last paragraph, the next throw-in goes back to the original spot where the timeout was called or granted.

Lets talk about my first paragraph (quoted above).

Is this not one very specific example of a "spot" being "moved" due to a timeout?

Player dribbling the ball requests and is granted timeout while deep in the frontcourt corner outside of the three point arc.

Won't the subsequent inbounds throwin be from the twenty eight foot mark on that side of the court?

Is this not one very specific example of "moving a spot" (in this case moving a spot almost twenty eight feet) "because of a timeout"?