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Originally posted by BktBallRef
There's nothing illegal about throwing the ball off your own backboard. It's not a dribble and it's not a pass.
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Tony, this was pretty much my thinking as well. It's not a dribble, but it sure seems like a pass. It's not batted away or fumbled, so it's not an interrupted dribble. It's obviously NOT a try, so it's hard to call it a rebound. It seems for all the world like a "self-pass".
He's dribbled and stopped. He throws the ball in the air and then he's the first to gain control of it. (Even tho it hits "the floor", although not as part of a dribble
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Marty's case citation seems pretty close to what we're looking at. The more I thought about it at the time, the less comfortable I was with saying it was legal. But I guess that's just the way it is, as odd as it seems to me.
Chuck