Basic Basketball rules for Teachers

[Oz Referee]

Originally Posted by eg-italy

Are you really sure? Lines are 5 cm wide (just a tiny bit less than 2 inches), as stated in the rulebook, and they are OOB. What's the rule supporting your claim?

Ok, after re-reading the 2008 FIBA rulebook, it looks like I am wrong on this one This was something that I was definitely taught (many years ago).

So in given this - what about the 3-point line and lines of the key? When I started refereeing I was taught that the lines were considered to be of zero width and that they were always considered to be in the section of the court that the player didn't want them to be.

Also, when reading over the rules I noticed that:

17.3 Rule
17.3.1 A player taking a throw-in shall not:

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• Touch the ball on the playing court before it has touched another player.
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Now maybe I'm wrong (as we have seen it can happen ) but this sounds to be as if a pass from out of bounds that bounces on the playing court and is then picked up would be illegal??