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Originally Posted by BktBallRef
I've been watching basketball since 1970 and officiating it since 1985 and I don't ever recall that being the rule.
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Now that I've given this some thought, I believe that this may have not actually been a rule, but rather, an ancient, now extinct, casebook play interpretation. An interpretation similar to the way we now interpret the play when thrower-in-er A1 throws the ball completely out of bounds without the ball touching any player on, or off, the court. Now, and back then, this is, and was, not an out of bounds violation, but rather, a throwin violation, with the ball awarded the Team B at the spot of the original throwin, not at the spot where the ball goes out of bounds.
BktBallRef: I apologize for threatening to punch you in the nose. I woke in a crotchety, cranky, ill tempered, mood this morning, like the mood that I wake up in every morning. Now that I've yelled at the neighborhood kids to get off my lawn, I'm in a much better mood.