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Hawks Coach, I think you are walking a fine line trying to distinguish between #2 and #3.
The casebook play clearly says to call a held ball IMMEDIATELY when the airborne offensive player is prevented from releasing the ball on a try or pass.
Now, I will concede that officials must walk the tightrope when judging whether the ball was blocked and then came free (play on) or was prevented from being released initially (call held ball here, by rule) and then came free later.
I don't know if the rule was the same ten years ago when I was in HS, but we lost a game by 2, when my teammate prevented the release of a shot by an airborne player up high, who then was able to make a fantastic play and release the ball from his hip before his feet returned to the floor and thus score the winning basket. I could care less about the game now, but just wonder what the rule said back then.
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