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Originally posted by Hawks Coach:
Is this acceptable from a pure NF rules standpoint (forget context, summer league with more relaxed setting and all of us there to learn). This situation is not listed as a correctable error, but ball has never been in play.
Ah -- here's the misunderstnding. The ball has been "in play" (made live) as soon as it is handed to the team for the throw in. By rule, this mistake cannot be corrected.
(As a usual matter, though, officials will, umm, make another mistake and have an inadvertant whistle with the ball mistakenly given to the other team for a throw-in, if it's brough to their attention before the ball is touched on the court or a foul is committed. Note that I very carefully did not say that the officials ignored the rule book and just gave the ball back to the "correct" team.
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