Self pass or not?

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Legal last year under NFHS rules as per rule 9-5-3 and case book play 9.5.3.

May not be legal this year. It's an announced NFHS rule change. They're changing the language from player(who is anyone on the court) to opponent. We'll have to wait and see the change in case book 9.5.3 to make completely sure whether it's become illegal or not. I suspect that it has.

Of all people, I thought that you would be able to identify a play in which a dribble has already ended!

Seriously, the change for this coming season only has to do with how a dribble ends; it has nothing to do with throwing a pass thereafter. All that the NFHS is saying is that a player may now dribble again, if he lost control of his dribble due to the ball touching/deflecting off of an opponent, the opponent doesn't have to intentionally bat it. Hence 9-5-2, not 9-5-3, was cited by the NFHS as the rule to be changed.

This change has nothing at all to do with the play posed by the OP, in which the player has already ended his dribble and is passing the ball. It is merely intended to cover a play in which the dribbler accidently bounces the ball off an opponents foot and it rolls away. It makes it clear that he can go pick up the ball and then dribble again without violating.

Despite not grasping the purpose of the coming NFHS change, you did point out the applicable rule for the OP's play.

9-5-3
A player shall not dribble a second time after his/her first dribble has ended, unless it is after he/she has lost control because of:

. . . A pass or fumble which has then touched, or been touched by, another player.

So the facts of the OP's play are: A1 has ended his dribble, A1 threw a pass which touched A2, A1 got the ball back and dribbled again. Ruling: Perfectly legal according to 9-5-3.