[Andy]

Originally posted by bard
For the sake of argument, I'm going to disagree with y'all. (Not stronly, mind you, but we need some discussion on this board!) Could we possibly consider this a travel?

In case 9.5.3, the player was trying to pass to his teammate. This does not appear to be the situation in this example. A1 tossed the ball into B1's gut. (For the sake of argument, let's just assume that no other A player was in the area, and this was clearly not a pass attempt to a teammate.)

Could we consider this a "pass" to B1? 4-31 defines a pass as "movement of the ball caused by a player who throws, bats or rolls the ball to another player." This definition does not stipulate the receiving player has to be on the same team. I might, however, state that A1 did not throw the ball to B1 but rather at B1.

The second consideration appears to be whether or not A1 lost control of the ball. I'm not sure of the answer to this question, even after reviewing player and team control. My gut reaction, without being there, is player control was not lost.

Therefore, to spur on discussion, I'm going to say I have no pass, no loss of player control, and therefore will whistle a travel.

For the sake of argument, great....

I want to see you sell this to Coach A, though!!!