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Originally Posted by ttt
Semi Final state tournament game last week. Under 2 minutes to play. Team A at the line shooting 2 shots. First shot is missed, Team B rebounds, outlets up the court and a scores a lay-up without anyone recognizing what happened. The officials got together, scored the basket, gave team A the second free throw and then awarded team A the ball back. Did the officials get it right? In all of my years I've never seen this happen.
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Yes, they got it right. It's a correctable error situation. When the officials failed to realize there was an error and the second FT was not shot, the ball is live and B's basket is good. They can now catch the error by the next dead ball and give the shooter his second FT.