Throwing off the ref?

[Oz Referee]

Thanks for the reply Mark, but my point was that there are several posts bringing up cases when players have deliberately thrown the ball into the ref to gain an advantage. For instance when the ref is about to blow 5 seconds for the inbounds. In this particular case - the referee that posted the message wanted to know whether to call the 5 seconds or not.

I would have thought that rather thna 5 seconds, the correct call would be a tech. As I understand it, any mention of th ball coming off the referee in the rules, assumes that it is incidental, and not a deliberate act by a player.

Any thoughts?