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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.
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Bard --
Okay, here's some discussion. What aabout the play where a player is oob, throws the ball against the back of an oppoonent, steps in-bounds ahd then catches the ball? That's legal, isn't it? I see the same principles here.
But also keep in mind that on this board the only topics that are allowed to generate a huge amount of discussion are 1) whether HS games shhould be reffed by NBA rules, especially the block/charge rule, and the restricted area;
2) whether, after a made basket, if a player scoops up the ball and passes it forward without stepping oob, the call is a violation, or a five-second call, or a delay of game warning;
3) whether Jeff R., and Tony H., are allowed to snipe at each other more than 3 posts apiece.
[Edited by rainmaker on Aug 30th, 2002 at 05:08 PM]