put ball in play across the lane?

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

How could the NFHS, or IAABO, have gone this far, after decades of fiddling around, trying to improve mechanics guidelines, and not have come up with a mechanic guideline to cover this procedure? I know that they cannot cover every single possibility, but it seems like they should have, at least, covered this.

No one has ever cared. Obviously the only people that care are a couple of coaches that obviously have too much to worry about as the vast majority of coaches never cared either way, because they coach their players to do whatever we do in this situation.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

One thing that we have to do, here in my little corner of Connecticut, according to our mechanics guidelines, is to stand, during the timeout, with the ball, at the spot where we will administer the throwin after the timeout. If we need to leave that spot to confer with partner, we are instructed to leave the ball at that spot.

That is the NF mechanic too. But again, mechanics are guidelines not hard fast rules.

Peace