Nevada-
Ron Thompson is working with me. He has been really great. I even met with him last week for lunch and we did a "step by step" from parking your car at the site until end of game (with the sage advice to stay for the varsity game and the ok to ask them if I could sit in their pregame, silently of course
).
Tomorrow night before the SNOA meeting at 6:30 he and I and another attorney (who is a newbie that I dragged into officiating) meet to do some 1 on 1 floor work. Then at the official meeting at 6:30 we do some group floor work for the first time as newbies.
As for 99, I guess I got it right since I said False. Here is what threw me and made me first think True until I thoguht about it. The "exception" that allows the leaping defender to land in the front and throw to the backcourt (R9-9-3 for my reference, not yours) refers to "a player from a team not in control" and it then says "(defensive player or during a jump ball or throw in)." So I read this as a [defensive player] OR [any player during a jump ball or throw in]. Which made sense at first since there is no team control during a jump ball or throw in. But then the case book in 9.9.1SitA is a violation and shows team control is established on the catch (and the case play has the recipient as a team member of the thrower, like the example in the test). Which means control is established in the fact patern of the question when it is caught. So that led me to the dilemma that it would have been ok for him to have landed and passed, but not ok to pass in the air, which seems silly. But then I decided that if I read it less like a lawyer and tried to read the rule and the case play in the most logical and consistent manner that the exception seems to simply exist not to accomodate a team mate of the thrower but to aid a defender who intercepts an inbound pass. Which, frankly, is about the only way it seems to me (as a total rookie) that it can make sense. So I said "False."
Whew!
Of course, your plain reading is even simpler and probably better than my convoluted thinking (though I got to the same result): "the rule says catch, not pass, so it would be ok to catch and land but not pass."
Sorry to hijack the thread UL!
Clark
[Edited by totalnewbie on Nov 15th, 2004 at 04:17 AM]