Violation?

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally posted by PGCougar
Saw this the other night. Made basket, A1 starts to inbound against the press. A2 jumps behind the baseline while A1 passes to A2. But A2 misses the pass and the ball rolls out beyond the plane of the sideline but remained behind the baseline. A2 didn't recover the ball before a five-second violation was called.

It got me thinking (dangerous, I know)... If A2 recovered the ball beyond the sideline boundary extended but got back behind the baseline in time to inbound it, would there have been a violation?

Phil

By definition the basketball court's boundaries are the two sidelines and the two endlines. A sideline ends where it intersects with an endline and an endline ends where it intersects with a sideline. When a team is entitled to a throw-in after a succesful or awarded field goal or free throw, the ensuing throw-in must be made from behind the endline.

NFHS R7-S5-A7 deals with throw-ins for the above situation. NFHS R7-S6-A1 states that the thrower shall release the ball on a pass directly into the court, except as in R7-S5-A7, within five seconds after the throw-in starts. Directly into the court means that the ball must cross over the boundary line from which that throw-in is being made.

When A1's pass to A2 went past the intersection point of the sideline and the endline, the pass touched out-of-bounds without crossing direct directly into the court. Therefore Team A has committed a throw-in violation. I do not have my NCAA and FIBA rules books in front of me but the ruling would be the same for both NCAA and FIBA rules also.