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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
The problem with saying that the technical foul happened first is that the ball would then be dead at that time (the official's whistle doesn't matter Fundamental #16 page 74) and no personal foul by the defense could subsequently be committed and no goal could be scored. (Yeah, yeah, there are a few exceptions that aren't relevant here.) Thus I think that we must choose to penalize the poor conduct of the nonscoring team after the play finishes in order to prevent taking an advantage away from the other team.
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But it seems to me that the intent of the case play mentioned earlier is to delay the ball being made dead, despite the fact that a foul has occurred. Therefore, this is an exception in which a technical foul
occurs, but the ball does not become dead.
We have delayed lane violations, which seem to serve a similar purpose, to allow the play to develop despite the fact that a violation has already
occurred. If someone asked you when the violation occurred, you would certainly say that it
occurred before the ball became dead.
The pertinent word here is occurred. I think the rule is asking us to wait and
penalize the foul once we are sure that the offense isn't making a scoring attempt, despite the fact that the foul
occurred earlier.