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Game is tied.
You see your partner "make a mistake". You saw it so you can sure as heck that a ton of others thought there was something wrong.
Blow the whistle and go in and ask. If you dont you know the coach is going to be asking...
All you have to do is go into your partner and ask what he saw. If it hit A OOB -tell him that it needs to be B's ball...
At least you have an idea of what you will tell coach B by the time you get to trail area.
There is nothing by rule that requires a coach to call time out to talk to an official. You can always hold up a gme to get the call right. Especially if it a rule interpretation and this may have been.
Had you reversed the call, you may have gotten it right. You get the coaches together and explain what was seen and what rule is (maybe admitting that rule was interpreted wrong) and it is B's ball by rule.
You may have a crowd that doesnt like the fact you got the call right, so what? If a referee doesnt have enough guts to get the call right then we have no business being on the floor.
The question is you make a mistake. B should have had the ball under their own basket.
My personal opinion. Correctable errors are not the only things correctable in the game and dont get stuck in that mindset.
We can correct arrows that are not right. (There are no provisions if we screw up and inbound incorrectly but) Table doesnt switch arrow... and we notice they dont so we just leave it? no we fix it.
We know a player has had 5 fouls but we let it go because the book doesnt tell us they have been DQ'd.
We check the scorebook and there is a discrepancy in the score but we just ignore it because if we take time to fix it or fix it the crowd will get mad?
Trail watches a shot hit nothing but air and goes OOB, partner hands back to A because he thought it was tipped but you know it was an airball but we need to get it in play and it was a mistake of judgement and can't be corrected?
You can see where I am going.... GET IT RIGHT!
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