9-3-3 Interpretation
 

Had a situation where A had a spot throw in on the end line. Ball was handed to A1 for the throw in. A2 ran off the court over the end line. I whistled the violation for leaving the court for an unauthorized reason invoking 9-3-3.

Thoughts and opinions welcome.

NFHS Basketball Rule 9, Section 2, Article 11 would be the correct rule, not R9-S3-A3.

MTD, Sr.

It is a violation under this section or 9-2-11. No teammate of thrower shall be out of bounds after a spot throw in begins.

I think it'll be alright as long as you didn't verbalize which rule you were enforcing when you whistled the violation. ;)

Yep. I reviewed rule 9 again after my post and seen 9-2-11. Thanks for the feedback. Interesting note about the play was that as the team with the throw in came out of the timeout, the coach called me over to tell me what they were going to do. I told him it's a violation (I didn't quote rule number). He was out of timeouts and tried to tell his player not to do it. They didn't hear him, they did it, I whistled it. There were 2.7 seconds on the clock, opposing team gets the throw in down 1, scores on the throw in and wins the game. Those darn rules can spoil a good plan.

Thanks again folks.

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He had to be thinking he could run the end line, which would then make this play legal.