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Rule 9 / Violations and Penalties
b When an opponent’s purposeful fake is followed by a violation of the freethrower
or a teammate of the free-thrower, only the fake shall be penalized
and a substitute free throw shall be awarded.
c. When disconcertion by an opponent is followed by a violation by the
free- thrower or a teammate of the free-thrower, only the disconcertion is
penalized and a substitute free throw shall be awarded.
Art. 5. When there is a simultaneous violation by each team, the ball shall become
dead. No points shall be awarded. When no other free throw is to follow, play
shall be resumed by awarding the ball to the team entitled to the alternatingpossession
throw-in at a designated spot nearest to where the violations occurred.
Section 3. Ball Out of Bounds
Art. 1. A player shall not cause the ball to go out of bounds.
Art. 2. The ball is out of bounds when any part of the ball passes over the
backboard from any direction.
Section 4. Player Out of Bounds
Art. 1. A player who steps out of bounds under his own volition and then becomes
the first player to touch the ball after returning to the playing court has committed
a violation.
a. A violation has not been committed when a player, who steps out of
bounds as permitted by Rule 7-4.6.b, does not receive the pass along the
end line from a teammate and is the first to touch the ball after his return
to the playing court.
Art. 2. After the throw-in is completed, the thrower-in must touch the playing
court inbounds before touching the ball.
Section 5. Throw-in
Art. 1. It is a throw-in violation when a thrower-in:
a. Leaves a designated spot before releasing the ball and that ball crosses the
plane of the boundary.
b. Fails to pass the ball directly into the playing court so that after it crosses
the boundary line, it touches an inbounds player or is touched by a player,
who is on the playing court, and causes the ball to be out of bounds.
c. Executes a throw-in that lodges between the backboard and the ring or
comes to rest on the flange.
d. Consumes more than five seconds from the time the throw-in starts until
the ball is released.
e. Carries or hands the ball to a teammate who is on the playing court.
f. Touches the playing court before the throw-in is released or touches the
ball in the playing court before it has touched another player.
g. Throws the ball so that it enters the basket before touching anyone, strikes
the back of the backboard or its supports, passes over the backboard, or
bounces into the playing court from a balcony or from the floor out of
bounds.
Art. 2. No player other than the thrower-in shall:
a. Perform the throw-in or be out of bounds after a designated-spot throw-in
begins.