Legal or illegal throw-in?

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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

Legal

MTD, Sr.

Nope.

The action does not meet the NFHS definition of a throw-in and is therefore illegal.

Why? The ball must be passed according to the following:
4-42-4 . . . The throw-in count ends when the ball is released by the thrower so the passed ball goes directly into the court.
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7-6-2 . . .The throw-in begins when the ball is at the disposal of a player of the team entitled to the throw-in. The thrower shall release the ball on a pass directly into the court, except as in 7-5-7, within five seconds after the throw-in begins. …

And a pass is defined as:
4-31
A pass is movement of the ball caused by a player who throws, bats or rolls the ball to another player.