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Originally Posted by Dan_ref
Let's review the facts:
L puts ball in play on a throw-in for team A. He then calls a 5 second violation. Then the T comes in & informs the L that for some unkown reason the ball should not have been made live. L sticks with his call, gives the ball to team B.
Your decision is not based on any rule that I can see. So based on what definition of fair play are you going to take the ball away from team B and give it to A?
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I'm figuring from the OP that it's possible that the reason the Team A player didn't get the ball into play was because there weren't enough other Team A players available, because some were subbing out, or they weren't paying attention because they didn't realize that the ball was live and the ref was counting. (that may very well be a run-on sentence). I agree that by rule, a do-over is not acceptable. By rule, it's just one of those Tough Beans situations that I talked about in my series on Correctable Errors, and the ref just has to live with the shame and ignominy.
But if I thought that the reason for the 5-second violation was that I shouldn't have made the ball live, and if it was summer ball, and if it wasn't a championship tournament game, and if there wasn't an evaluator there watching, I think I'd rather risk the wrath of the Team B coach, than the Team A coach. I'm not saying anyone else should follow my lead on this, just that I think it's what I'd do.