[mick]

Originally posted by Mark Padgett

Here's where it sometimes gets tricky. The rule says the throw-in pass must be thrown directly into the court. However, after a made or awarded score, we all know the inbounder may throw the ball to a teammate who is also standing OOB outside the endline, and have him throw the ball into the court. At first reading of the rule, this would seem to be a violation since the ball wasn't thrown directly into the court. The technical "loophole" is that if the first player throws the ball to the second player, then that throw was not the "throw-in pass" and therefore legal. And yes, the throw-in pass still has to be made within 5 seconds of the time since the ball was at the disposal of the inbounding team, not the final inbounder.

Mark,
A pass to a teammate is a pass.
Good point.
mick