Obviously, these refs screwed up big time. Where to start? No way they should have continued play without making sure A1 was replaced. OK, they realized that eventually - lesson learned.
However, there is no provision in the rules that I could find for taking the basket away and having a "do-over". NF 10.3.2 says the technical shall be assessed to a player if he participates after being disqualified
when discovered. Case 10.3.2note also does not mention anything about wiping off any play that occurred while the disqualified player was participating.
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They rule that because the play should not have happened (i.e. a sub was not brought into the game) the ball was and remained dead after the first foul call on A1
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is nonsense. What you had was bench personnel (A1 became that when his coach was notified he was disqualified - NF 4.34.3) participating illegally during a live ball. The ball became live when the official put it at the disposal of the free throw shooter.
If one of the officials had blown his whistle while A1 was driving, the play would have stopped there. But since the disqualification violation wasn't "discovered" until after the basket, it counts. Since this is also an indirect on the coach, the eventual count to three Ts on him was correct.
Not much else was, however.
BTW - since there is no provision for cancelling the basket, there is no erroneous score. Therefore this does not come under the correctable error rule.
[Edited by Mark Padgett on Jan 29th, 2001 at 12:29 PM]