Throw-in held ball question
 

Hello,

I am new to IAABO and am getting ready to take the test :-) One question keeps coming up in the practice exams on refschool. The jist of it is:

A’s throw-in simultaneously caught… official rules held ball

My logic is that the ball is legally touched so the throw-in should end, the arrow should switch, and since the result of the "legal throw-in" is a held ball it should go to B as an alternating throw-in... irrnt wrong.

what is the correct ruling?


Thanks!

Sounds correct to me. I've been going through alternating throw-in situations quite a bit over the last week and as long as it is legally touched inbounds like it is in this situation, arrow changes ball to B for AP throw-in.

Only instances where arrow is not switched that I have come up with are foul committed by either team and a kicked ball by B as the first touching.

Rule 4-42 and case book have helped me with this.

the exact question is: A-1's throw-in, under the alternating possession procedure, is caught simultaneously by A-2 and B-2 causing a held ball. Official awards ball to team B. Is the official correct?

The answer is yes, but why?

You answered your own question in your original post.

Ask yourself this: when does the throw-in end? Once it ends, what happens next? Don't overthink it.

That's why.

Thanks... absolutely I was reading way to much into it

It's worth noting that as you originally described the case, it's not clear that it should be B's throw-in after the held ball. If the original throw-in were not an AP throw-in, the arrow would not change when it ended, and it might be pointing to A. In that case, A would get another throw-in (this time an AP throw-in).