Violation!

Here is a fundamental I would use. If it aint OOB then it must be in bounds.

The only times ball is OOB (see 7-1-2) touches player who is OOB, touches person, floor, or object on or outside boundary, the supports or back of backboard, the ceiling, overhead equipment, or supports, or passing over a rectangle backboard...

It's not one of these, it must be in and legal.

Ya, well in a Senior Boys (V age) game the other day, a player asked me if there is a neutral zone under the basket. I immediately knew he meant the RA as in the NBA. You could imagine the look on my face. I wish I could call a T for that. The simple fact that there are no semi-circles on the court should have been his first clue.

Summer AAU game:
Called a PC on a play in which the defender was standing near the basket.
As I report the coach complains about the defender not being allowed to be down there, blah, blah, blah...
So before we administered the throw-in, I told the coach that I would go check for him. I walked out in the lane and looked around on the floor for a bit, then came back near the table and loudly said, "No, coach, it doesn't look like he was in the circle." :D

I would **love** to try that. I just might do it this year, too. :)

Not quite the case on a throwin, but the OP doesn't break any specific throwin rules, either.

Reminds me of a buddy who does baseball and told me this story...coach was giving his plate umpire partner some lip from the 1st base coaching box about the strikezone when his team was up to bat. He stopped the game, took off his mask...walked to the 1st base coach box, put on his mask and said "PLAY BALL". Coach asked what he was doing....he said "PLAY BALL"....Next pitch was outside...."STRIKE". Looked at the coach and said "Well, I guess the view down here is not as good as you claim" :p

Ouch.
 

That stuck me in my professionalism nerve.

Yeah-huh. I hope it's merely somebody's wishful thinking. :eek:

Last year at the end of a game, close score, I had a player (after a made basket) on the throw in hit the bottom of the backboard, bounced forward in play directly into the arms of the defender, who put it in. The fans went nuts...and then of course doesn't the inbounding player again do exactly the same thing...another basket.

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Dude,
I think you need help!:)

Just wait untill 2010 Juggler then we will have that.

Chalton Heston, Overacting, As Usual ...
 

"We finally really did it. You Maniacs! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"

Many years ago my partner did the same thing to a coach in a basketball game. He had been b!tching all game (the coach) and so my partner sat next to him on the team bench. VERY funny :D