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'!!

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