Inbounds Violation (Video)
 

I'm looking for the high school rule that defines this violation.

White team scores.
Red teams is trying to inbound the ball.
Red team steps across the baseline but not in the act of passing.
Ref calls violation for stepping across baseline.

Even have video: http://youtu.be/GNAYuKt-wbY

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I understand the call if this is a dead ball in-bounds play. I don't understand it on an in-bounds after a made bucket. After a made basketball, it seems like the in-bounding team could walk back forth across the baseline as many times as they want within their 5 second limit to inbound the ball. But when they do throw the ball in, they have to be behind the line.

On TV, I've seen guys start to throw the ball in while glancing down to see their foot on the line. They stop their progress of throwing the ball in and back up an start over.

NFHS Rule 9-2

ART. 5

The thrower shall not carry the ball onto the court.

Thanks a lot!!

If he just stepped on the line, but not over it, he would have been fine, right?

Correct. The line is OOB and you are OOB until you are inbounds.

I think it's fair to say that a lot of teams who want to inbound the ball quickly after a made basket....well, they push the envelope in terms of whether they get completely out of bounds or not. Sometimes in a flash they throw it in with one foot in the air while the other is just barely OOB and quickly pivoting. Heck, sometimes that foot never even quite gets OOB. I admit that if there's no pressure, I'm hard-pressed to make this call (game interrupter). If it's more blatant or, as in the video, there is pressure, different story.

I assume that your statement refers to the OP. And based upon that assumption you would be incorrect not to call the infraction because there was no pressure by the defense. It is not a "game interrupter". Advantage/Disadvantage does not apply to Violations.

Stepping onto the Court while making a TI is a violation whether or not the defense is applying pressure. It is no different if A2 receives the TI pass from A1 in Team A's Backcourt (and Team B is not pressing), establishes a Pivot Foot and then lifts his Pivot Foot before starting his dribble. A2 committed a Traveling Violation. A1's violation has to be called even though all of the Team B players are in Team A's Frontcourt.

MTD, Sr.

Are you saying that three seconds, which is a violation, is never a game interrupter?

By rule, violations are not subject to advantage/disadvantage considerations like fouls are. In practice, 3 seconds is generally done that way, but not always. Don't apply this to the throw-in violations, though (unless the governor of your section of Rome says otherwise), or really any other violations I can think of.

A Few Good Exceptions ...
 

... or ten seconds to release a free throw (change "game interrupter" (not my favorite phrase) above to "interpreted based on advantage/disadvantage").

Advantage/Disadvantage ...
 

"By rule"? I disagree. The following is in the rulebook and makes no distinction between violations and fouls:

THE INTENT AND PURPOSE OF THE RULES

The restrictions which the rules place upon the players are intended to create a
balance of play; to provide equal opportunity between the offense and the
defense; to provide equal opportunity between the small player and tall player; to
provide reasonable safety and protection; to create an atmosphere of sporting
behavior and fair play; and to emphasize cleverness and skill without unduly
limiting freedom of action of individual or team play on either offense or defense.
Therefore, it is important to know the intent and purpose of a rule so that it may
be intelligently applied in each play situation. A player or a team should not be
permitted an advantage which is not intended by a rule. Neither should play be
permitted to develop which may lead to placing a player at a disadvantage not
intended by a rule.

4-27 Incidental Contact does (of course) refer to fouls only, but, surprisingly, doesn't use the term advantage, or disadvantage, anywhere in the wording of the rule, but does allude to those terms.

Ok, so now the advantage/disadvantage philosophy applies to not only three second violations, but also 10 seconds on a FT, too. Where do we draw the line?

I think a throw-in after a made basket when an inch or two of the thrower's foot is over the line and no defender is anywhere even close to the play belongs in this same advantage/disadvantage grouping.

Line In The Sand ...
 

That's where I, and all of my local colleagues, draw it.

In the immortal words of the infamous Jurassic Referee: "There are certain violations that I think that even the FED rulesmakers would probably agree, if you twisted their arms, that some discretion (read: advantage/disadvantage) is needed to make an appropriate call. Examples might be 3-seconds and the 10-second count on a free-throw shooter".

(Before he passed away, I got Jurassic Referee to agree that these were two violations to apply advantage/disadvantage to. It was, in my opinion, my finest hour on the Forum.)

Let's Go To The Videotape ...
 

Not according to a casebook play.

9.2.5 SITUATION A: Thrower A1 inadvertently steps onto the court inbounds. A1
immediately steps back into normal out-of-bounds throw-in position. The contact
with the court was during a situation: (a) with; or (b) without defensive pressure on
the throw-in team. RULING: A violation in both (a) and (b). COMMENT: Whether or
not there was defensive pressure or whether or not stepping on the court was inadvertent,
it is a violation and no judgment is required in making the call.

Very astute of you. I thought of that "no judgment is required" case play. But this is about a thrower who gets fully OOB and then steps in. The case that I'm referring to (and I'm sure many of us see it frequently) is when the thrower never technically gets OOB, i.e. he gathers the made shot, steps toward the endline, pivots while lifting the other foot, and you notice that pivot foot was an inch or two over the line.

I admit this is technically a violation based on the rules interp we discussed in another thread recently when a team starts advancing the ball without having taken it OOB. But when the team has every intention of taking it out properly and there's no disadvantage incurred by an absent defense....I just can't see that as anything other than a game interrupter. So we'll have to respectfully agree to disagree.