backcourt explination

[Clark Kent]

Last night on our game we had a classic front court inbounds play where the player tips it in the front court to the back court never having gained possession and then goes retrieves it in the back court. Coach yells for a BC violation and I try to explain that possesion had never been established in the front court yet. He said that the rule didn't use to be that way. I had nothing to tell him. I am pretty new, did the rule change in the last few years? And does anyone know of a link to a thread or a better explanation than what I gave. I don't have my rule book on me either, so if someone knows the reference.