Bart,
I'm not saying wait until the shot goes in before you call a jump ball. I'm saying (IMO) the only way you can call a jump ball on that play is if BOTH players come back down to the ground and then the ball comes loose, or some other effect of the loose ball.
I've been taught that a play has a beginning, middle and end.
Our challenge is to try and let the play finish before we put air in the whistle.
I've been to camps where I've called jump balls, and had the evaluator (Leon Wood) tell me to let the play come back to the floor, being held. I think in this case that would have prevented this call.
Now again, I'm not criticising the official. He saw what he saw, made the call, and stuck to his guns.
Gutsy call! And if as Chuck says, all those things were
going through his mind as he made the call, DANG! He's good!
