Okay...the scoop on both questions.
I live in NC, and as such, have access to Dick Knox, head of the National Federation Rules Committee for basketball. I just finished talking to him, and his answer to both situations is as follows:
1. Basket counts as a 2. As soon as it was touched, it is no longer a 3.
2. Team technical, neither direct nor indirect to the head coach. Two shots and the ball, but the technical is not flagrant. It IS penalized WHEN discovered being violated. The live ball argument does not apply here. This situation differs little from a player not being in the book and scoring a basket or committing a foul; penalized when discovered if the player is in the game.
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