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Interesting situation in a summer league game
This happened Monday night:
End of the game, 10 seconds left, Team A is winning by two points.
Team A is in-bounding after a Team B made basket. Team A attempts the double pass play. As A1 attempts to throw the ball to A2 OOB on the baseline the pass hits R1 in the side of the head. The ball then rolls onto the court where A3 touches it. B1 then grabs the loose ball and scores a layup to tie the game.
R1 is dazed and U1 takes an official's timeout. During the timeout team A coach is livid and says that the play should have been blown dead by U1 when the ball hit R1 and then rolled onto the court.
R1 and U1 decide that the play stands, Team A goes on to win in overtime
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