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Originally Posted by Judtech
The irony was saying it would have been helpful knowing what occured first. But since we were all caught flat footed on that one and didn't know what happened first we made it up as we went along. We got it wrong, but we did it in such a SPECTACULAR manner, we got away with it!!!!  |
And if you knew the rules, you wouldn't have had to make anything up. You could have simply followed them.
You had two correct choices you could have made:
1) If you decide that the foul occurred
before the ball was through the basket, by rule you cancel the basket and administer the
common foul. Case book play 4.41.2.
2) If you decide the contact occurred after the ball was through the basket, and the contact was neither intentional or flagrant(as you posted), by rule you count the basket and ignore the contact as being "incidental". Rule 4-19-1NOTE,
Soooooo, even if you had to guess whether the contact was before or after the basket, you could still have made a correct call after that by rule if you followed #1 or #2 above. Instead, you ended up making a call that had absolutely
no basis at all under the rules. What the rules won't allow you to do is count the basket
and administer a common foul. That is kinda "ironic", I guess.
You can only get so far conning people when you're officiating, even if you're "spectacular" in doing so. I wouldn't break an arm patting yourself on the back just because some rec league coach had the same rules knowledge as you. You can get away with making up calls in rec leagues but there's some pretty knowledgable coachs around at the higher levels. And if that call went against them, even if they don't know the rule they'll sureasheck check it out.
Hopefully it's a learning experience.