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Originally Posted by OKREF
The 2 rules that the case play references does say thrown ball.
9-2-3. The thrown ball shall not be touched by a teammate of the thrower while the ball is on the out of bounds side of the throw in boundary line plane except as in 7-5-7
9-2-6. The thrown ball shall not touch the thrower in the court before it touches or is touched by another player.
One could reasonably interpret that "the throw in" means a ball in flight.
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The rule certainly does say that. Case plays often expand rule. Let me ask this, if we have a rule saying throw in teammate can't touch it on OOB side of plane, why would we try to declare it is ok to reach through and touch it in teammates hands? In other words, why are we trying so hard to say this isn't a violation when we have something to hang our hat on? And again, there's no reason for teammate to reach across and touch ball in throwers hands.
And again, I think the ball location rule stuff makes sense also.
I would call a violation every time. I guess I'd clarify that and say I'd have to see what it looked like. I don't want to call it so if contact is brief I pass. Here, other player actually tried to take it. Violation.