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Originally posted by Mr Ref BB:
I wouldn't punish a player or a team twice for one infraction. If the player smacks the backboard, and it vibrates, and alters the shot on the rim....I'm counting the basketball. I'm not going to give the kid a technical foul for this. The rule says this, but officiating is a job of using common sense. If a official counts the basket and gives the player a technical foul, be sure that he or she wouldn't be invited back to that school to officiate another contest
You're counting the basket? I'm reading that to mean that it didn't go in. What is the rule that allows this?
And, if it did go in, of course you would count it. But, now if you don't give the T you're allowing an illegal act to go unpunished. When it happens at the other end in a slightly different circumstance, will you ignore it then as well?