Q from a 1st year: Crafty inbounds play.

[ca_rumperee]

Hi all, new to the board. Been monitoring for the past week or so.

My first year of HS, after just one year of CYO (mostly very young) and some adult rec and hs training over the summer.

I've done about 15 games so far, mostly GJV, but more boys games coming up.

Anyways, late in a close JV game on an inbounds from the endline, I hand the ball to A1 then step back watching action in front of me. A1 throws the ball off of the back of B1 (who was facing the other way), it bounces back to A1, and A1 lays it in. I was not expecting this in the least, but I did have A1 with one foot down inbounds before he touched the ball coming off of B1, so I let it go as a legal play. One foot inbounds (with other in the air) was all he needed, right?

Then, with Team B feeling "used and abused" by the play, I had B1 step out of bounds with the ball, turn and then pass to B2 who was coming back as if he should be the one to inbound the ball. B2 proceeded to walk over the endline, turn and pass the ball in to B3. It took a moment to process, but I called a throw-in violation. In retrospect, it should either have been a travel on B2, or an out-of-bounds violation if he stepped on endline prior to travelling.... I think.

Team B was pretty shell shocked by this sequence, but recovered to win the game.