restraining line question

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by DownTownTonyBrown
7.6.3 D
Clarify situation (b) for me, please.

Does that say the thrower can step up to the restraining line (inside the OOB line) but if he does, the defender may also enter "this area" to play defense?

Sounds just like a dribbler had stopped, trapped in his frontcourt and the defender is on him tight. Offense has 5 seconds to get rid of the rock.

They're not using a restraining line on these plays. Just a regular OOB line with very little room behind it. The thrower can step up, and even onto, the OOB line to make the throw-in, just like a normal one--but the defender has to give the thrower one step in-bounds leeway to make the throw-in. In (b), they're talking about the thrower trying a throw-in to just inside the boundary line- i.e. on the in-bounds side of the boundary line but still within a step of it. The FED says that the defender can legally intercept that throw-in as long as the throw-in has left the thrower's hands before the defender moved into that one-step-from-the-line area. Make sense? Not the best language, is it?