Officiating.com's basketball editor, Jim Dixon, discusses the many aspects of the National Federation rules and how to properly officiate them. Each book in this series is designed to improve your understanding of basketball rules and game management. In addition, there are 54 play situations provided in Live Ball / Dead Ball which go a long way toward improving your rules knowledge and best practices approach to interpreting the rules.

Topics that are covered include live balls; dead balls; how to put the ball into play with a jump ball; the alternating possession arrow; jump ball administration; team control; player control; throw-ins and their violations — including AP, spot and running throw-ins — and procedures and potential errors involved in officiating throw-ins, plus exceptions; and officiating play situations involving out-of-bounds, inbounds, ball location, and player location.

Topics covered in Part III of this series include the following:

• Varieties of Throw-ins
• Potential Errors During a Throw-in
• The Throw-in "Spot"
• What the Thrower Must Do
• Procedures for the Throw-in
• Option on the End Line Throw-in With No Spot
• Spot Throw-in or Run the End Line?
• Not Always a Spot Throw-in
• Consistency on Restricted Movement
• Don't Put a Team at a Disadvantage
• Administering the Throw-in
• Player Location: OOB on the Throw-in
• Player Location on the Floor During Throw-in
• Officiating the Throw-in
• Throw-in Violations
• Count the Ways to Violate
• Defensive Throw-in Violation
• Offensive Throw-in Violation Causes a Turnover
• Good Mechanics/Proper Location
• The Thrower Cannot Travel
• Touching the Ball OOB on Throw-in
• When Can the Defense Touch the Ball?
• Be Careful of "Paralysis of Analysis"
• Calling the Obvious
• Keep Your Calls Simple