Foul after shooter returns to floor

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Raymond

What college supervisors do tell us is not to split hairs on calls that are expected.

It's kind of interpreted as "until the player has completed the act of shooting" as opposed to a literal "returns to the floor."

[walt]

+1 to Bob Jenkins reply.

I had a coordinator tell us the player is entitled to complete the landing and we are to officiate the play as if the player is still "in the act of shooting" up until they have completed the entire act which includes a "full landing." This came from a game where a shooter rose up for a jump shot with her right foot slightly in front of her left and a defender moved forward toward her in an attempt to contest the shot. There was no contact by the defender but the defender's front foot came to the floor close to where the shooter released the ball on the try. As the shooter came down, her left foot hit the floor first and her right foot came down on the defender's front foot which caused the shooter to go off balance, stumble, and go to the floor. There was no other contact by the defender. We were told that this is a "take the shooter up, down, and landing space through completion of the act of shooting" play and the shooter should have been awarded free throws for being fouled in the act of shooting. The official on the play ruled that once her first foot hit the ground he ruled she was no longer in the act of shooting and ruled the landing on the defender's foot as incidental because the defender didn't make any other contact.

Because of that message, I have now covered this type of play in all of my pre-games in all my games. As Bob said and as this coordinator said, officiate all the way through until the player has completed the act of shooting.