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Originally posted by ljudge
Gentlemen: Let me preface this by saying I don't know squat about basketball but I am curious about something. In football we have an inadvertent whistle rule. If an official anticipated a foul (as many people think happened) and blew the whistle and realized he didn't have a foul what actions are available to him? Is there such thing as an inadvertent in b-ball as we do with football?
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On an inadvertent whistle the ball is dead immediately unless the ball's in the air on a try. The team in control retains control. If no team is in control the team with the arrow gets the ball.
In practice, if an inadvertent whistle had been the call at that point of that game the official would have been better off clutching his chest & falling to the floor faking a massive heart attack.