Team A gets the tip and the ball goes directly out of bounds. I have seen where the refrees give it to Team B by using the arrow, but shouldn't they just give it to Team B because Team A knocked it out of bounds??

Smoke, I believe that A caused the ball to go out of bounds, but never had control. So, B gets the ball for a throw-in. When B is handed the ball for the throw-in, that constitutes the games first possession and the arrow should be set towards A's basket.

In this situation the ball is given to team 'B' because of the violation. 'Team 'A' caused the ball to go out of bounds. The arrow is not set on a jump ball until a team gets 'control' of the ball, and since no team has had control here yet you definitaly can't go by the arrow.

Team 'B' will get the ball near where it went OOB, once team 'B' has the ball for the throw in they have control, and team 'A' will now have the arrow set in their direction.

[This message has been edited by barney (edited February 05, 2000).]

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Team 'B' will get the ball near where it went OOB, once team 'B' has the ball for the throw in they have control, and team 'A' will now have the arrow set in their direction.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
So if Team A steals the inbounds then the arrow would switch to Team A Right??

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Smoke on 02-05-2000 10:06 PM
So if Team A steals the inbounds then the arrow would switch to Team A Right??

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Not quite. The arrow doesn't "switch" because it's set to A's direction as soon as B is handed (or bounced) the ball for the throw-in. A does, however, "keep" the arrow.

Thanks 'Bob'

Thanks for the answers.