FIBA Throw-in spot

[Jay R]

Originally Posted by Altor

The intent is to make it as obvious as possible to the table and others that the goal did not count.

Yes that is the logic.

Years ago, my supervisor made that point. I said "FIBA is funny, they want the table officials to stop the game for timeouts after made baskets which is a huge responsibility yet they don't trust them to figure out if a basket counts or not".