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Originally posted by Alligator Bag
This play happened in a regional tournament game in our area and I need some input. A1 inbounds ball a midcourt. A2 recieves pass in frontcourt and proceeds to drive the length of floor for an uncontested dunk on the wrong basket. The officials don't blow whistle until after he dunks ball. They huddle and decide that he caught pass in frontcourt and going the wrong way have a backcourt violation, no basket.
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Too late for this
Because they failed to call the violation, once the bucket was scored, count the basket.
We don't penalize a player for travelling if we miss making the call and the player scores.
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B's coach goes ballistic and wants basket to count for him since they didn't kill the play till after he dunked ball.
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And he was correct
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They award B the ball at midcourt and go on.
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No such provision for a do-over in this situation.
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A fellow official argues that if they went back to violation and wipe off basket, then they should also penalize the dunk since it happened on a dead ball.
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Adding fuel to a large fire.
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Another also argues that since it is NOT a correctable error, they should have let the play stand and give ball back to A for throw-in and bite the bullet since they didn't blow the violation when it occured.
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The official who said "bite the bullet was correct" but sounds like he didn't win out. This is not a "Do-Over" situation.
My two cents.