Excessive Swinging of Elbows
 

Without contact, this is a violation, right?

My partner last night was trying to tell me they changed this to a technical recently. I hadn't heard anything about it.

i believe...
 

that a few years ago it was made into a violation, to encourage officials to call it more. It is a violation.

RULE 9-13

Penalty: The ball is dead when the violation occurs and is awarded to the opponents for a throw-in from the designated out-of-bounds spot nearest the violation.

Your partner has the history on this exactly backwards. Used to be a T. Now it's a violation.

I refer to this as Lysdexic (as opposed to Dyslexic)
 

Lysdexic - a learning problem marked by a severe difficulty in recognizing and understanding what happened previously, leading to performance and presentation problems. :p