Although, not to get all semantic, there was a player touching the ball when he came back inbounds. Wouldn’t that technically be the ‘first’ player to touch the ball?
Exactly. And that’s why you never see that called… Think about players like Scott Wood and J.J. Redick… they ran the baseline and went out of bounds all the time. But because another player had the ball to pass to them, there were no violations.
It was a bad call.
