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Lemme set my "wayback machine".
Way back in olden times(as the legend goes),in a land still unpopulated by the fierce Arrow Possessions,they actually had casebook plays that covered this exact situation.It referred to a foul committed on a "tapper" during a jump ball held near the basket he was shooting at.The official had to make up his mind whether the jumper was actually tapping the ball at the basket,instead of just tipping it anywhere.If you thought that it occured during a controlled tap(at the basket,but the ball never coming to rest in the shooter's hand-which was/is a violation),you could call it a foul in the act of shooting,and award 2 FT's. If the foul occured before the tap,it was just a common foul.We had a pretty sharp Varsity coach,who taught his kids what to do if they got into a jump ball with a much taller opponent.He always had them hit the ball on the way up.His logic was that sometimes he would catch an official daydreaming and get away with it,but,at worse,the other team would get the ball OOB and he would have time to set up his defense.
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