OK, let me try and get this straight..we're back to airborne.
A1 inbounds to A2 who is in the frontcourt....A2 tips the ball toward the backcourt and A3 jumps from the frontcourt, catches the ball while airborne and lands in the backcourt....Since the inbound ended when A2 tipped the ball in the frontcourt then the ball has frontcourt status and A3 violated when he caught the ball as an airborne player and landed in the backcourt.
I'm either way off or it still seems easy to me
Whew....
1. This will very seldom happen....but if it does...
2. I still have no team control (in my mind) on a tip, so I don't have a violation
3. I also have no status for the ball on a tip on an inbounds - FC or BC (IMHO)
4. This is only applying to a tip by the inbounding team also, right?
and no, I'm not trying to be sarcastic or difficult