Errant Pass

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I can't disagree with so cal lurker because I know more about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle than I know about NBA rules.

But I would still like to see how the NBA defines a self-pass?

Steph Curry receives an inbound pass while all alone while deep in his backcourt. He catches the inbound pass with two hands and then turns around, pivoting without moving, or lifting, his pivot foot, and then immediately, with those same two hands, tosses the ball into the air, with the ball striking the court several feet in front of him, and he allows the ball to bounce a few times on the court. He then sees that he's wide open, catches up to the ball, catches it with two hands, lifts both feet, obviously including his pivot foot, and attempts a seventy-five foot jump shot, that hits nothing but net.

NBA expects its officials to use common sense. They know whether or not a player is attempting to pass to a teammate as opposed to simply throwing the ball in front of themselves to start a dribble. Officials who come up with a bunch a hypothetical what-ifs don't even make it into the room.