Let's start something new and productive. From time-to-time, a situation will be posted. You make the call. Officials, try to refrain from answering too quick!

Situation: Team A is awarded and alternating-posession (AP) throw-in. A1 lobs the throw-in pass toward A2 who is breaking to the basket. The throw-in pass is too high and lodges between the ring and the backboard.

What is your ruling and what are you going to do about the AP arrow?

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My goal here is to educate. The finger-pointing and bad-mouthing is getting out of hand and solves nothing. Just makes everyones blood pressure go up!

Wow, real rocket scientist.

The AP stays with Team A, but Team B will get the ball since the AP had already been changed.

I guess a better answer is it is... Team B ball out of bounds, but the AP will stay with Team A.

Team A is fouled and going to shoot 2 freethrows. Timeout is called by team B.

After the timeout is over, team A shoots first freethrow. After the shot everyone realizes team B had 6 people on the floor.

What's the call?

Did the refs notice it ? If they did it is a Tech. foul.

I'm not sure who noticed it first. But yeah refs noticed, dicussed, and no call was made. Are you saying if team B noticed it first there is no penalty?

In the rule book, Rule 6.4.5 discusses this and it also explained in the case book. The opportunity to make an aternating-possession throw-in is lost if the throw-in team violates. If either team fouls during an alternating-possession throw-in, it does not cause the throw-in team to the possession arrow.

It sounds like this has happened to Riverside. I would say someone made a bad call. Something should have been called.

It doesn't matter who seen it first, if the refs did, it should have been a tech.

That's what I thought too. Thanks for the input.

Technical foul plain and simple. The play, foul shot, occurred while 6 were on the floor, regardless of who noticed what when.

If you are refering to the Riverside game for the 6 players being on the floor... I talked with all three officials after the game and all three said they didn't see the sixth player on the floor. The Riverside coaches were at the scorers table(go figure) and the officials were trying to get the game started and "apparently" none of the three saw the sixth player. I agree totally that if they had seen the additional player they would have called a technical foul. It is real easy to see things in the third row of the bleachers then it is on the floor. Oh, sorry that is a whole other topic on an other thread!!!! Yea, you wanna-be officials know what that is all about!!!!

Jump ball situation. The game starts or overtime starts and the official tosses the ball into the air, but neither player makes contact with the ball. The ball hits the floor and a player from team A grabs the ball and starts toward his basket and play continues. What is the violation if any and what is the correction?