Legitimate Play?

[DrPete]

A similar play I had years ago in my early ref days still bothers me.
Situation: OOB throw in right in front of bench, with no room on sideline so I backed the defender three feet...... All good so far. Thrower could not find an open team mate so at about four seconds on my count, threw the ball hard at the sideline defender's leg, defender seemed to crouch down and the ball hit him in the groin, painfully. Player went down as ball went out of bounds again, player taken out of the game. Huddled with my partner, and neither of us had anything in the way of a unsporting of flagrant foul. My mistake was standing too close to the play to get a full look at what happened. Explained to the coach that it looked like a legitimate basketball play, but was just ugly. I wanted to go with a tech, but couldn't justify it in my head.
He definitely had control and was not just trying to bat the ball off of an opponent while going OOB, I would have nothing in that situation.

What would you guys do?


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