[Back In The Saddle]

I had an evaluator give me the business about this a couple of weeks ago, so I'm going to re-ask the question. If it is only RECOMMENDED that you hand the ball to the thrower on the front-court baseline, then you CAN bounce it, correct? And as long as you have the players boxed in, you're good, correct?

I was actually rotating across and he asked me why and then directly, "What does your officials manual say?" I went home and looked it up. From the word recommended (and the evaluator's strong assertion) I concluded that you could bounce it across the key. If I go back to him with the cite from the book, how would I argue that you CAN'T do this?