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Originally posted by bigwhistle
It would be easy to say....take the points by B off the board, put the 7 seconds back on the clock, and shoot the 2nd free throw and play on. Unfortunately, even though this would be the most fair thing to do, it would be incorrect.
This would be a correctable error (2-10-1-a. failure to award a merited free throw). Therefore you would go back and shoot the free throw.
However, because of 2-10-5, which states....Points scored, consumed time and additional activity, which may occur prior to the recognition of an error, shall not be nullified, you can't do a "do over".
Therefore, in your senerio, count the basket by B, go back and shoot the last free throw by A, and the period is over.
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Don't necessarily agree that it would be more "fair" to take away the points that B earned with everyone on the floor playing a live ball . . . here, B ended up with the ball and 7 seconds and A got the free throw to which it was entitled -- seems pretty fair to me, and not conditioned on what happened. The "do over" theory would encourage gamesmanship in objecting -- wait and see what happens. (Though I concede there are bad results from the rule as it stands, in this scenario, this seems like themost fair result.)
(And to answer canuckrefguy, Bigwhistle is right that the basket counts.)