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Originally Posted by Scratch85
With this in mind, if the Trail's last knowledge was that Team A had control and Player A1 was the last known touch to the Trail (even though he knows there was some action following this touch) and Player A2 was the first to touch it in Team A's backcourt, Why not blow the whistle, keep your palm up without signaling a violation and quickly ask your partner for any information differing from yours.
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These two statements are in direct conflict with each other. How can you
know A1 was the last to touch, if you
also know there was action after the touch? What if A2 was first to touch in the backcourt, but it was a race with B2, and B2 ended up with the ball and was going up for a layup when you blow your whistle to confirm what your partner had on the backcourt violation?
Would you do the same for shooting fouls? A1 goes up for a shot, you can't really see for sure if B1 blocked the ball or hit A1's arm, so would you blow the shot dead, confer with your partner for what they saw, then just go with an IW in that case? Of course not.
I understand your theory about wanting to "get the play right". But, in most cases, stopping a play to check with your partner when you're not sure is not the way to handle it. We need to be sure about our calls. "Never guess" is about as close to an absolute in basketball as you can get. However, when we're not sure about certain calls, such as an OOB call when a pass comes from outside our area, we can ask for help. The difference is the whistle is blown because we already know the ball went OOB, we just need help on who touched it last. In your case, you're stopping play when it's not clear there was a violation.