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Unfortunately what TheMentor said is true.
Happily players still do not know about this rule.
"Are you defending strongly against my throw-in? Well, I can touch you with the ball and you will get a technical foul!"
FIBA is known to be looking after complications when something could be made simple.
See, for example, the old rules about the shot clock. Happily they've changed them now. Or alternating possession: they could have copied NF or NCAA, no. They want their own concoction.
Last year a case was raised: a technical foul when the ball is at disposal of a player at mid-line for the throw-in at the start of the second period (i.e., with AP). Say the throw-in is for team A.
According to the 2003/2004 rulebook, the intermission was not ended. Hence the penalty was two FTs before the start of the period. The question was: what do you do with the AP arrow?
Well, I'm a bit embarrassed to tell you what the official interpretation was. Our "Technical Consultants", i.e., the chief instructors, claimed that team A had the ball after the FTs and that the arrow would remain to indicate team A even after the throw-in starting the period. Please, don't ask me why.
We raised the case to FIBA, the answer was a rule change! Now every technical foul during an intermission gives two FTs and the ball. Except before game (FIBA could not lose the occasion to put in some exception): two FTs and jump ball.
Ciao
Enrico
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