Does RPP apply?

[HawkeyeCubP]

Originally Posted by Eastshire

What's our hurry here? If the offense is just setting up a play, I don't have any issue (heck, I'm not handing the ball to the thrower until the defense has had a chance to set up anyway). Now if they're over at the bench trying to turn it into a de facto time out, put the ball down, but if it's normal dead ball activity, I don't see the problem.

No "hurry," per se -- just the difference between "reasonable" amount of time and an unreasonable or inordinate amount of time to make a thrower available.