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Originally posted by SteveM
"Once the ball is placed at the disposal of the thrower no player occupying a marked lane space may enter or leave such space or break with either foot the vertical plane of any lane-space boundary until the ball touches the ring or backboard or until the free throw ends. Players who do not occupy a marked lane space may not have either foot break the vertical plane of the free-throw-line extended and the vertical plane of the three-point line until the ball touches the ring or backboard or the free throw ends.".
Unless I'm mistaken, I would have to say that those restrictions apply even when the thrower muffs the pass or simply loses control for whatever reason because the throw has started.
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The point is that the free throw has
not started by rule. Fumbling the ball isn't a try, according to the definition of a "try" in Rule 4-40.
As for your citation, if the ball goes directly to a player who hasn't left their spot on the lane and that player didn't break the plane of the lane line when they grabbed the ball, or if the fumbled ball goes backward to a player on the arc who also never broke the plane of the 3-point line when they grabbed the ball, and that player just throws the ball back to the shooter-- and the shooter then grabs the ball without also ever having broken the plane of the foul line or semi-circle and shoots it within the 10 secods allotted by rule-- please tell me
where or what is the violation. There isn't one in your citation above, is there? Nobody at any time ever entered or left a space or broke the vertical plane of a restraining line, did they?