Is This an Attempt?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

What you wrote might confuse a newer official or a nonofficial looking to understand the rule. It wasn't wrong, but just unclear because this "pass" turns into a dribble under these circumstances because it meets the definition of such.

The situation being discussed above is a judgment call using almost the same criteria anyway. If you judge it a try, then you can legally go into the backcourt and get the ball. If you judge it a fumble or a pass, you can't. You also can't definitively say that it always will be a backcourt violation too imo.

It's no different than casebook play 4.44.3SitB. How do you determine in that case whether the ball was fumbled or deliberately dropped? Answer----> judgment.