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Old Thu Apr 18, 2013, 12:10am
Nevadaref Nevadaref is offline
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Originally Posted by AremRed View Post
A thrower-inner can dribble the ball out of bounds. The thower-inner can throw the ball up in the air to himself. Can the thrower-inner, during an endline throw-in, bounce the ball off the backboard to himself, catch it, and continue the throw-in?

PS: No I don't know why someone would do this, but I am curious.
Technically, the inbounder cannot dribble the ball.
It is illegal to cause the ball to carom off the board and return out of bounds.
The reason is that the backboard is located inbounds.

Last edited by Nevadaref; Thu Apr 18, 2013 at 03:15am.
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