I bounce the ball to the free throw shooter, who takes a few dribbles and bounces it off his shoe. The ball rolls to the sideline.

Since this was not intentional, all I should do is retrieve the ball and let him re-shoot, right?

Also- hasn't the NFHS officially said no more congratulating a free throw shooter after each shot (high five from the teamate in the lane, etc.)? I'm assuming this would be a delay warning and a subsequent Technical thereafter...

There is a casebook play on the first play you describe, and you handled it correctly

There is rule and casebook that state no congratualting players on FT. It is a pain in the butt to enforce and cause and in my opinion causes more heartburn than its worth.

What I do if they do it is just tell them we are playing and bounce the ball to the shooter..and get the ball in play. Never had a problem yet...

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champ,

I've had this happen at least twice this year already. Your case book reference is 9.1.1 which states:

A1, at the free throw line to attemp a free throw (a) muffs the pass from the official and it rolls forward; or (b) accidently drops the ball before the throwing motion is started. RULING: In (a) and (b) the official should sound the whistle to prevent any violations and then start the free throw procedure again.

Yep, tweet your whistle and get the ball back and re-administer!