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Originally Posted by BigCat
Center made the call because lead had nothing. C must have felt it was too obvious to let go. The last replay shows the whistle is blown and Ball is on court. He wasn't making a sideline OB call. They were likely talking also about whether, as someone said, the shot clock should reset.
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It wasn't that obvious to the L. Put yourself in his spot. The L is on the farside of the endline. The UNC player has the ball on the right side of his body thus the L has an obscured/closed look of the ball. The L would most likely be guessing if the ball was still in the UNC player's hand when the foot landed. My supervisor instructed he would rather not call a violation that actually did occur than to call a violation that did not occur.
The shotclock should reset if the UNC player threw the ball back on the court (establishing team control) and play continued. Since the crew ruled the UNC landed on the court with the ball, no reset should occur.