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Originally Posted by Dan_ref
Well, here it gets trickier. Certainly for the purposes of time out only "the offense" can be granted a time out during a throw in. So thinking in terms of offense/defense helps for at least this situation. Not sure it helps elsewhere though, not worth bothering with IMO
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Good point. But.....that's why I think that they wrote the TO rule as only to be granted when the ball is in
control of or at the
disposal of his/her team. The thrower has the ball at his disposal, without control(using rules semantics for the definition of control).
To be quite honest, I really don't know what difference all this verbiage makes anyway. We're still gonna call the play the way the rules lay it out, and the way that the rules lay it out, it don't make no nevermind who is called the defender on this particular play. It's a violation no matter which of the 10 players does it.