Rules Question

[Lotto]

Originally posted by ChuckElias

This is not correct, Lotto. Throwing the ball off the oppononent's backboard is always a dribble. Throwing the ball off your own backboard is never a dribble. The FED book makes this explicit, but it's also true in NCAA. The AR that you posted above gives an obvious example. The player dribbled, ended the dribble, threw off the backboard (obviously not a try -- he was passing to himself), and then caught the ball. If that was considered a dribble, the player would've committed a violation.

It's never part of a dribble to throw off your own backboard.

I don't disagree with your last statement (in so far as NCAA rules are concerned), but I don't agree with it either. There's nothing in the rulebook that I see that addresses this. In the A.R. I cited, it is explicitly stated that the player is airborne when he catches and dunks.

If throwing the ball off on one's own backboard is not like bouncing it on the floor, then there's nothing that I can find in the NCAA rulebook, other than the A.R. just cited that deals with a very narrowly conceived situation, that gives any sense of how to deal with this. So what is the status of a player throwing the ball off of his/her own backboard? Is it just like throwing the ball in the air? Is there a difference in NCAA/NFHS?