YouTube - Foul or no foul 2010_01_14_01_58_43.avi
There are some 30 seconds left in the game with White down by 2 with the ball (which is really irrelevant but I want to give you the setting). Black knocks the ball loose and as players begin to scramble it is evident black will get the ball, when out of the corner of my eye I see a jersey get pulled on. My whistle went off (I'm in C on table side at the bottom of the screen in the video) and I ran to the the kid that fouled (#3) as not to see his number and assure everyone knew who fouled.
The black coach wasn't too happy with the situation, but I assured him it would show up on film (and was ever so grateful when I got home and saw that it had, even if it wasn't as visible as I had thought).
So my question to you guys/gals is this.....
In your opinion knowing that I saw play from my peripheral was it a play that I should have gotten, or should I have passed on it?
We ended up NOT administering the play correctly, as I was sure that black had gained possession of the ball when I called the foul, however on film it is evident that they hadn't and thus we should have been shooting fts. My follow-up question is to seek your council on how I could have (if at all) been more observant in realizing that black had yet to get to the ball and thus administering it correctly?