Would you make this call? Why or why not?

[JRutledge]

Years ago in my very first playoff regional, we are in the title game and the team that was ranked like #3 in the area was playing the host school of the regional did the very thing you mentioned. The in-bounder rolled the ball starting from out of bounds onto the court. I was shocked and had never seen that and paused. Before it I realized what he had done, it would have been a very late whistle and I never called that. I learned a lesson from that, and always felt would never miss that again. I have never seen anything like that since. But what I have done since is that I do not let slide a lot of these in-bounds that have a kid jumping from in-bounds and never getting out of bounds to make a throw-in, usually after a made basket. I pay more attention now.

No one ever noticed or said anything to me, but it was a close game and I felt bad that I missed such an obvious violation if you are standing right there in basically a 1 or 2 possession game that could have been the reason they won or loss based on not calling the right thing. BTW, the ranked team lost that day, but this play always stuck with me in my career. That has been about 12 years ago.

Peace