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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
BZ, unfortunately you are very incorrect about this. Team A has not committed a throw-in violation of any kind on this play.
A1 did not even attempt to make a throw-in pass. He doesn't have to. You cannot penalize him for having the ball touch the OOB area prior to the making of the throw-in pass. We certainly know that A1 can bounce the ball OOB prior to making the throw-in pass per 9.2.2 Sit D.
Furthermore, although 7-5-7 doesn't specifically state such, even you wrote that A1 could HAND the ball to A2. Notice that's also not throwing, batting, or rolling the ball to another player, which is how the definition of a pass reads.
Quite simply it would be silly to deem handing the ball to a teammate not a pass and thus a violation. There is no throw-in violation in this scenario by Team A. The only violation has been by Team B. The only question is whether a technical foul is also warranted.
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The pass allowed in 7-5-7...no matter how far you stretch the definition...must have A1 getting the ball to A2 for it to even remotely fit the provisions under the rule.
This is a common sense issue, the intent of the rule wasn't to allow A1 to sit the ball down and not have a teammate replace them as the thrower.
As I said earlier and it was lost...the best way to handle this is to do what you'd do if a thrower fumbled the ball...blow the whistle, kill it, and get the throw-in re-started.