Boy, Richard, I gotta admit that I've never read that "provision" anywhere. If the players/jumpers line up facing the wrong direction, then you would allow the basket for team A and quickly "re-set" the teams so they go the right way. That was the officials' mistake. But if they are facing correctly for the initial jump ball, then you stick with the baskets as assigned. It makes no difference, to my knowledge, whether team B (out of confusion by what player A1 is doing and uncertainty about who will get the points) tries to defend the "shot" by A1. Either way, the score counts for team B (2 points only) because it went in their basket. It's no different, really, than when after receiving an in-bounds throw under team B's basket, A2 gets confused and quickly puts the ball in B's basket--that was the player's mistake, not the refs' mistake.
[This message has been edited by Todd VandenAkker (edited May 26, 2000).]
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