[Raymond]

I, personally, would have let the basket stand. Basically, your crew, when asked to explain the call the crew would have to say "we didn't see it, but we heard something." I prefer to go with "We might have missed it Coach; but none of us saw it hit anything so the basket stands."

I had a play one time in a 3-man crew. I'm Trail tableside in front of V-HC. H1 takes a 3-pointer from the C's (opposite table) corner. I look into the paint for rebounding action and look back up and see the ball is descending at a funny angle on the C's side of the backboard (and depth-wise, behind the backboard). Apparently the ball hit the pole at the edge of and behind the backboard. However I did not see it and the C did not see it either as he was bringing the shooter "up and down". The V-HC saw it and kind of made a stink about it (as did his father (AD and former official on our board) in the stands). I just explained to V-HC that I did not see the ball hit anything so I could not call the violation. I don't doubt at all the ball hit the pole based on how the ball was descending but I'm not calling that if I don't see it.