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Originally posted by Nevadaref
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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by JugglingReferee
Say the teams are pointed the wrong, Team A wins the jump, doesn't commit an O/B violation, and nails this "3-pointer", and during the whole time, Team B knew the player was going the wrong way, played no defense, and let A1 "shoot".
Is that enough of an argument to award B the 2 points?
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No. You don't know for sure that team B knew that. You also don't have any argument if the rule above gets cited to you.
Don't make things harder than they need to be.
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JUMPERS FACING WRONG DIRECTION
5.2.1 SITUATION E: During the pregame practice period, the visiting team properly uses the east goal and the home team the west goal. The officials, by mistake, allow the jumpers to face the wrong direction to start the game. A1 controls the tap by tapping the ball back to A2. A2, realizing that he/she had warmed up at the basket behind A1, dribbles to that basket and scores an uncontested basket. RULING: Score the basket for Team A. The officials should stop the game and emphasize to both teams the proper direction. The mistake is an official's error by allowing A1 and B1 to face the wrong direction; not a correctable error.
Bottom line: Better get those jumpers facing the proper directions!
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5.2.1 SITUATION E seems to me to create a particularly ugly wrong: the game has barely started and, through the officials' brain-cramp, Team A is up 2-0. I suppose the ruling seeks to be consistent with the general case that you can't unwind what's happened with the ball alive and the clock running. But in this case, where the uncontestedness of the basket will almost certainly call attention to the confusion, why not make an exception that says, for an uncontested first basket enabled by the officials' failure to point the teams in the correct direction, start the game again?