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It was 6th grade boys.
He wasn't defending the thrower, he was about 6 feet down the sideline from the thrower. Had he been right in front of the thrower, that's easy - breaking the plane (and I believe his team had already been warned about that once prior - but all the games kind of run together). But down the court, not involved in the actual throwin, I thought maybe the mysterious rule of which my instructor (who's been reffing for 44 years) told us in class would come into play.
I thought it was best to just avoid all that stuff and tell the kid to put his foot back on the court.
I guess maybe you could say that if he's got one foot off the court, he's out of bounds, and his team only has four on the floor at that point? Which is illegal as well, right?
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