Double Dribble or Out-of-Bounds?

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Rock'nRef

(it clearly was not an intentional attempt to throw it off of the defender)

Irrelevant. Why are we worried about motives here... call what happens, not what the players may have meant to happen.

My thought was that the defense should be awarded here for good play.

This "thought" normally gets us in trouble. We should not be rewarding good play or penalizing bad play. Instead, we should be adjudicating what we see in accordance with the rules.