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Originally Posted by Sharpshooternes
I am not thinking of this play as a leaving the court for an unauthorized reason situation but a Delay of Game. They broke the throw in boundary albeit 15 feet away from the thrower in-er.
The rule I am wondering about is 9-2-10:
The opponent(s) of the thrower shall not have any part of his/her person through the inbounds side of the throw-in boundary-line plane until the ball has been released on a throw-in pass.
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While it is this type of violation by the letter of the rule, this is not the type of action intended to be covered by this rule. It is written in the context of a defender covering the thrower and preventing the thrower from being able to make a throw. It was never intended to apply to a player half way down the line that is in no way affecting what the thrower can do. This is not something I'm going to call. Likewise, I'm not calling a violation on a teammate of the thrower for stepping on the line while trying to get open in a similar location.