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restraining line
back in the last century when I was playing grade school ball our gym was soooo small....how small was it....
we had two ten second lines. One at each of the free throw lines extended, iow the division line for the east basket was at the free throw line of the west basket. we also had the restraining line marked all the way around as well. we were always taught, back then, that the restraining line became the OOB line until ball was in-bounded. Nobody could cross the restraining line to receive a pass or to play defense. [this did not include crossing after made basket because we regularly used the pass to an OOB teammate and fly for the long bomb as a play].
when I run across the need to "verbalize" the restraining line now, I bring it up in the coaches/captains meeting to emphasize that if we use a "restraining line" nobody can cross it, and that includes the in-bounding team. That way at least the coaches "were told" up front even though they may not have "heard" it.
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