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BKBRef,
I'm not questioning your rules interpretation, necessarily. But I do think that the situation deserves some thought. I have two in this case.
The first is, how is it that an official on the floor can be looking up at the clock and at the shooter and know with certainty that the seemingly-light-speed-moving tenths counter read two when the shooter secured the ball?
That said, now I'll move to what I think is a more important point. The rule that you state was inappropriately applied was put in because some rules committee member(s) became persuaded (how I do not know)that it is not possible to catch the ball and shoot it in less than three tenths of a second. If this is indeed true--and common sense has me leaning toward the negative, but that's another issue--then why should it matter whether the play occurred on a throw-in or free throw, or during the course of 'normal' play? If the rules say that it's not legal (presumably because it's not possible) in one situation, then why would the reasoning change under a different hypothetical?
jb
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