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Back in the day when I was officiating HS, I had a boys varsity game where its a 4-pt game with like 2:30 to play in the 4th qtr. . .
Visiting team (green) is on defense and one of their players gets the rebound, but for some reason, decides to shoot at the opponent's basket. . .
Home team (white) has a player who decides not to let him shoot and clobbers him, but the ball goes in. . .
My partner at lead, blows his whistle super-loud runs up and scores it as an "And 1!"
Green player is all pumped up like "Yeah, yeah, yeah" and meanwhile his team and coach are screaming at him, like "What are you doing?"
So, I'm a trail and I cut my partner off, and he's like "What's wrong?"
I'm like, "You just gave an and-1 to a player who shot at the wrong basket"
He's like, "Oh" (now really confused) - "What do we do now"
To wrap this up, we counted the foul and the bucket, but green is in bonus on their end for 1&1 (8 team fouls). . .
So now, here's where the circus and calamity starts. . .
The white team head coach is now upset because he's not getting what he feels is a merited FT because my partner called a foul.
I explain to him that by rule, they don't get awarded a free throw for a player scoring a basket for them.
Now, he's livid, and he's giving me the business. . .
Move on to the green team. . .
So, we go to green's end where we are going to shoot 1 and 1, and now the green team head coach is screaming that his player should be shooting 2 shots because it was an attempted shot. . .
Again, I go over there and repeatedly explain that by rule, there's no such thing as an attempted shot at the wrong basket so therefore, his player doesn't get awarded for a shooting foul.
Meanwhile, my partner (who looked great in calling the foul, very dramatic and all), but who took this all sideways is now asking me why isn't the player shooting 2 shots because he took a shot down there. . .
I explain to him.
Long story short, we get it all done and both coaches are screaming at me at the end of the game because they felt I screwed it all up and my partner got all the accolades.
Both coaches called the HS assignor together and it was a fascinating explanation that my HS assignor couldn't believe that this play actually happened. . .
The joys of officiating.
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