I was too focussed on "12-14 rows" to notice the grammar error.

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To satisfy my curiosity, how much time was left when the basket was scored?

Welcome to the forum, North State.
 

What's the difference? :confused:

Confused In Connecticut ...
 

And see 10.1.5.D as well. I posted both of them because I can't figure out which one to use here.

This is what is confusing me:

In situations with the clock runningn and five or less seconds left in the game, a throw-in plane violation or interfering
with the ball following a goal should be ignored if its only purpose is to stop the
clock. However, if the tactic in any way interferes with the thrower’s efforts to
make a throw-in, a technical foul for delay shall be called even though no previous
warning had been issued. In this situation, if the official stopped the clock
and issued a team warning, it would allow the team to benefit from the tactic.

Doesn't this "tactic" always "interfere with the thrower’s efforts to make a throw-in"?

B gets ball under the basket and throws it off to the side of the court and it bumps the bottom row of bleachers. I believe that to be about the distance of 12-14 rows up near the bleachers.

The moral of the story is the OP was written poorly and therefore know one really knows how and where the ball was thrown.:)

Not if the thrower isn't making such an effort.

I guess, but I would have expected an estimate in feet rather than rows if that were the case.

The Tar Heel State ...
 

No way. They use the metric system in North Carolina. Want to buy a few liters of moonshine?

Yes
 

Here's why:

1. I thought the kid threw the ball 12-14 rows up into the stands like so many others.
2. If the Assistant Coach is telling you this before the play there is intent involved, and it's not the AC who is saying throw the ball into the stands to get a DOG, it's the HC.
3. In my judgment the act of throwing a ball that deep in the stands is a serious case of USC. If the kid in a fit of anger launches the ball that far into the stands are you just going ignore it? You can get a DOG or even DOG T in a much better and more sporting manner (if you can somehow use that term to talk about it. I can't).
4. Add 2+3 together, and I still think you have to think about it, if not a flagrant T on the HC, maybe a flagrant T on the player.

I probably wouldn't do it, but I would consider it

There was less than 15 seconds to go.

Less than 5 seconds let it go and let the clock run down. With 15 seconds, if defense breaks the inbounds plane they are getting a DOG warning. Tossing the ball into the bleachers will be a player tech.

Still Confused In Connecticut ...
 

With, or without, a delay of game warning?

10.1.5 SITUATION D: Immediately following a goal by A1, A3 slaps the ball
away so that Team B is unable to make a quick throw-in. RULING: The official
shall sound his/her whistle and go to the table to have the scorer record a team
warning for delay. The warning shall then be reported to the head coach of Team
A. Any subsequent delay by Team A shall result in a team technical foul charged
to Team A. (4-47-3)

In this situation without. I see a slap as one where they give it a flip toward the end line after a basket when they should just let it be as in 10-1-5-e.
Now read between the arrows below.

In situations with the clock runningn and five or less seconds left in the game, ----->a throw-in plane violation or interfering with the ball following a goal should be ignored if its only purpose is to stop the clock. However, if the tactic in any way interferes with the thrower’s efforts to make a throw-in, a technical foul for delay shall be called even though no previous warning had been issued.<----- In this situation, if the official stopped the clock and issued a team warning, it would allow the team to benefit from the tactic.

Ignore, Warning, Technical Foul ???
 

Good citation. There's black, there's white, and there's gray. Judging the difference is why we get paid the big bucks. Wait? I forgot that all of you don't officiate in Connecticut. Sorry. That why we get paid the bucks. That's better.