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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett
That's not the intent of that rule. He wasn't "preventing the ball from being made live promptly" since it was live when the inbounder had it. If you interpret the rest of the rule, "preventing.......from being put in play" you'd have to T everyone who used good defense to prevent an inbound pass. This rule has to do with interfering with the other teams right to start the inbound process.
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If the defender goes OOB and interferes in any way with the throw-in, you can justify handing out a "T" under 10-3-6(a) imo. The defender can be OOB though and not interfere with the thrower or throw-in. As Skippy said, that's the case if he's OOB 20 feet away from the thrower. In that situation, I don't think you have the rules backing to call a "T". I can't think of a rule that will allow you to issue one anyway.