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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
There was a case play that came out years ago that said that if the throw-in dropped straight down or went out into the court, it was legal...but if it rebounded back towards the endine, it must have hit the back of the backboard and thus was a violation.
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I don't recall such a case play. I wish there were such a case play since it would make the lead's call a lot easier since the lead has so much to watch for already during an under the basket throwin, whether the throwin team is under their own basket, or is under their opponent's basket: throwin violations by either team, inbounds players setting screens, and trying to gain favorable positions, etc. To follow the flight of a throwin to see exactly where it contacts the back of a backboard is very often difficult to do. Whenever I have this play as the lead, which is about once, or twice, a season, I almost always, at best, get a look at the contact point "out of the corner of my eye". I almost never get a real good look at it. Maybe it's just me. Over almost thirty years, it's become part of my routine to, pretty much, never look up at the basket area as the lead unless there's a play where a foul may be called on an attempt at a blocked shot. You won't see me, as the lead, calling any violations for a pass, or a shot, going over the backboard. As the lead, my eyes are not looking anywhere near the height of the basket, most of the time. Hell, I've had two plays over the past five years where, as the lead, I didn't even know if the basket went in, or not, before the ball went out of bounds.
I would like to see such a case play if there was one. Perhaps Nevadaref could dig it up from his archives. I do recall the topic, as described by Jurassic Referee, being discussed here on the Forum. If I recall correctly, some posters included descriptions of such a play that included the mathematics and physics of such a play, to come up with the same conclusion as Jurassic Referee, but I don't believe that it was a NFHS interpretation.