[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

The front, top, sides, and bottom of the backboard are all in play. The ball cannot pass over a rectangular backboard from either direction. The back of a backboard is out of bounds as well as the supporting structures.

From MOFFICIAL: "If you question whether the ball hit the back, side or edge. If the ball caroms into play it probably hit the bottom or the side so in that case you have nada."

I've heard the same advice. As the lead were not used to looking up, on a throw in, or as we're watching our primary during a regular offiensive possession, so it's hard to spot this violation, and we're probably not going to get any help from our partner, the trail, who has better things to do than watch the thowin.

Veterans. Is this good advice?

We've got a lot of things to watch when we're administering a throw-in. One of them is when the ball is first touched, so we can chop the clock. So we absolutely must be aware of where the ball is all along its path as it's thrown in, and aware of what is near it. If it's near the backboard, we probably ought to have an eye on it in much the same way that we would have an eye on any player that was near enough to touch the throw-in pass.

Just my $0.02