This mechanic makes things easier for sure but doesn't really lead to more correct calls. If the Trail can't bounce the ball to the thrower in the corner and get his butt to the 28' line to referee the play then he probably shouldn't be doing varsity ball. I wouldn't concern yourself with this one as much as other positioning things.

You keep bringing up "John Tipton", is that somebody we should all know??

No one should be calling college basketball then, b/c that's the mechanic.

Why should the Trail have to go down there to administer the throw-in when the Lead is 3 feet away? :confused: So, yes, maybe it's just to make things simpler. Has nothing to do with whether or not a person should have to hustle back to the 28' line.

I don't know what his footprint is, I was asked who my source was and thats the guy. He was putting everything in the context of the playoff assignments .

So it seems like Ohio is not 100% NFHS mechanics.

I wasn't addressing college mechanics, pretty sure the 'OHSAA' in the OP is a high school association. I'm well aware of the college and NBA mechanics and their "makes things easier" benefit, my point was that mechanic does not lead to more correct calls and thus is not as important as other mechanics tweaks. :)

Gotcha. We too have administrators here that are overly concerned with stupid mechanics stuff instead of "getting the play right". It's pretty sad. :(

I have never heard that....quite the contrary, every clinic I've been to (including Jim Berry's) says the L only handles throw-ins on the end line, that the T would handle the situation in the above case. Are you sure you heard it right? Maybe that's just John's opinion but it's not OHSAA's.

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NFHS mechanics:
Lead bouncing the ball across the corner to administer a throw-in is...
...allowed for two-person ("The throw-in is administered by the official responsible for the boundary line.")...
...but not for three-person ("In the frontcourt, the throw-in is administered by the official responsible for the boundary line.")
Simple enough.
But let's not, for the sake of a mechanic either cherished or detested, overlook one significant thing: It's a legitimate PCA issue more than anything. I.e., after distributing the ball to the thrower, what kind of surveillance is the administering official providing?
New officials, particularly, are -- I think due to an engrained habit picked up by the legitimate two-person mechanic -- inclined to focus on the player defending the thrower and the thrower him/herself to the detriment of low post play. Lead's focus on the torsos and the elbows of players in his primary away from the throw-in goes lacking. This is the problem seen also with many Lead officials doing three-person who bounce the ball across the corner. Rather than pass the surveillance of the thrower and defender there off to the Trail and turning attention inward, his/her need for avid attention on the jostling going on in his/her primary down low is ignored.
This is observed time and time and time again with new officials. Enough that it's just a lot easier maintaining the correct three-person mechanic stated above and teach the Lead to look inside during the throw-in, unencumbered by the perceived need or lingering habit to look at the throw-in outside his/her primary.
Good officials at Trail can easily perform this prescribed mechanic and they are observed doing so regularly without incident. There's really no good reason, other than personal preference and perhaps expediency, to vary from the mechanic, if that's what you're asked to follow.
Is this a legitimate point?

I heard right. Whether he was couching his opinion it as OHSAA 's stance or not, it's hard to say. If he's wrong, there probably will be a lynch mob if some guys get ripped for those mechanics.

Was the OHSAA's reasoning for changing the mechanic "to get more correct calls"?

Don't know, you'll have to ask this "John Tipton" guy. :D

I'd love to be able to do this in my state too but alas. I think it certainly makes things easier for the Trail, especially when the throw-in is very close to the endline. Let's be honest, does it really matter who bounces the ball to the thrower? :confused:

Only to you apparently [emoji6]

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I would agree in some circumstances. I think it is about where and how the play starts and where it moves. If you're already on the low side and the play is moving that direction, it may not make sense to try to get to the high side since it will briefly put you in a stacked alignment. But, at some point, you're going to have to be on the high side unless you're going to continue down to the endline.

Agree....to a point. We're not talking about farther way, just from the opposite side at a similar distance.

I just don't like taking the other 8 players out of my field of vision for no good reason. When you go low and look back up through the play, you lose all coverage of the corner and any activity originating form there (approaching screens, e.g.) and there is no one else that will be covering that.

Honestly, that topic is just silliness...and that is why you keep seeing varied opinions. It matters not one bit. It is a moving target that will change 1 day after you switch your stance. The same guy that is telling you to go parallel (or otherwise) will, after everyone is going parallel, will shift to 45 so he can tell you something to change again.