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Thinking purely in logic terms because it's been a while since I officiated shot clock, but the shot clock buzzer does not cause the ball to become dead. It's just a marker that officials use to determine if a violation occurred. By not having a whistle here, it seems pretty clear that they knew a violation did not occur. Furthermore, with an imminent offensive play in progress, they were right to hold off on stopping play to get the shot clock right. After the basket comes the whistle, they square everything up, and inbound the ball at the POI (non-designated spot throw-in to the non-scoring team). That would be my explanation to a coach.
But....you could also make an argument (as the white coach most certainly did) that red was on offense without a properly set shot clock. Can you thus claim that play should have been stopped as soon as it was realized there should have been a reset, and by fruit of the poisonous tree wipe the basket? I don't think there's rules support for this, but it's apparently what the crew decided to do.
Honestly I'm not sure what the correct outcome is here. Is there a collegiate case play to help us out?
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