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Originally posted by JugglingReferee
I'm just saying that the potential exists that B could kick the ball when he has no obvious chance to make a bonified attempt at rewardable defense.
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Sure, in which case he's rewarded with what? Another shot at guarding a throw in. Why should the penalty be doubled because it's after an AP sitch? If you take the arrow away from B, that's what you're doing. You're making them skip the next arrow because he kicked an inbounds pass he couldn't get his hands to.
On a normal throw in, you just give the ball back to A when B kicks it. In normal play, you give A a throw in when B kicks it. In this situation, B is rewarded slightly for kicking, in that they have knocked A out of their offensive rythm. Why should this be worse for B.
Kicking in basketball is not the egregious offense that hitting the ball with your hand is in soccer.
Adam