Baseline Throw In Hits Net...
 

I know that if the throw in hits the backside of the backboard, that is OOB.

Had a throw in yesterday that hit the net....I let it go thinking that it was ok but it made me wonder cause I've not seen that in 8 years of officiating.

Really?

It's legal.

Yes...first time the inbound pass from baseline clipped the net in my 8 years of calling games.

Ahh...but what is the call if the throw-in had hit the rim, and landed in-bounds, instead of the net?

Also legal.

Why would it not be OK? Is the net OOB?:)

Ok, but what if the ball hit the rim, then touched the net (from the inside), continued through the basket, and landed in-bounds?

one word: impossible

I actually see that happen many times during a game, don't you? (Except for the throw-in part...)

I was actually picturing the ball entering the basket from the bottom. I have called this violation once in 20+ years.

Ah, I get you now. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough on the direction of the ball; I was picturing it hitting the rim, then falling through from above.

I, too, have only called it once.

Anyway, the point of my incessant questions was to try to point out to our buddy Coltdoggs that he probably was probably thinking in the back of his mind that there's something wrong with touching the net during a throw-in, but the real violation would be if the ball goes untouched through the basket during a throw-in (9-2-7).

As long as were in the neighborhood -

What if the throw-in lodges betwixed the rim and backboard?

Has the thrower met his obligations in 9-2, specifically 9-2-8? :D

Are you talking about the backboard the rim is attached to or the other backboard? :D Becasue, if it is the other backboard, that means we've got bigger problems!!!! :eek:

Vocabulary
 

Just cuz I'm in a buried in the book, 'precise language' mood....

Baseline = 'End line'
Rim = 'Basket' which consists of the 'Ring' and 'Flange' and/or 'Braces'.

No offense to anyone. I just wish I could stop calling it 'the key'!!