As you've read above, under NF rules, if A1 (the jumper) catches the ball before it has touched another player outside the circle, touched the backboard or touched the floor, then team B gets the ball OOB and team B also gets the arrow.
As to the question of which came first, the chicken or the egg, er, I mean, the catch or the violation, I think the NF has it right.
It's the catching of the ball which causes the violation. It's the same as saying, during play, that stepping on the sideline creates the violation. No one would argue in that case that the stepping came before the violation, if one has to come before the other. YOu don't blow the whistle before the act that causes the violation, do you?
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