My partner and I "dropped the ball" last night...As we opened up the fourth quarter, we accidentally let the teams go the wrong way. White took the throw in from half court like they should have, but we sent them going away from their bench instead of toward it. They inbound the ball, bring it into the (wrong) frontcourt, pass it around and then drill a 3. About 14 seconds run off the clock and then we realize we screwed up. I was the U in this two-whistle game, so luckily I didn't have to make the final decision, but I still had input into the decision that was made (I'm almost positive we did it wrong). Here's what we did: since the basket was scored in red's basket, we gave 3 points to red and gave the ball OOB to red for a throw-in during which they were permitted to run the baseline if needed. After getting home and taking a look at the books, it seems from the simplified and illustrated book that we should have given the basket to the white team, instructed the teams to go the right way from that point forward and it would have been red ball with the baseline run permitted. SO...TWO QUESTIONS...WERE WE WRONG IN WHAT WE DID? and IS MY "RIGHT" ANSWER REALLY CORRECT?
*Note: The white team was up by about 30 points when this happened, so we were fortunate that our mistake(s) did not play into the outcome of the game
