A Few Questions From a Rookie

[jdw3018]

Congrats on joining the ranks. You're needed. Now, go get your rules book and look up the answers to all of these and more! I'll be glad to give you the quick answers, but they are all pretty basic and I'd encourage you to really study.

#1 - your partner was correct. You need to learn what is required in order for a backcourt violation to be called. Look at both 4-4, which is the rule regarding ball location, and 9-9, which is the rule regarding the backcourt violation.

#2 - The top of the backboard is inbounds. Read 7-1-2.

#3 - Depends. I say that because it depends on whether the ball is outside or inside the vertical plane of the boundary line when touched. If outside the boundary, a technical foul. If inside, legal. Rules 7-6, 9-2 and 10-3-11.

Good luck, and read a lot of this board. It has helped me tremendously.