What do you do?

[SamIAm]

I am a fan of getting it right, but I am also a fan of the rules. If you ask anyone beside the game/table officials you are operating outside the rules and you still don't know whether you got it right or not. You only know what someone who has no responsibility for the game thinks, even if it is someone you trust. Would you ask this same person if the ball hit the OOB line in a close play that you didn't get a good look at? I also don't think you can say I/we got it right when you go outside the rules. It is not the usual situation where you might be accused of a "make-up" call but it is none the less. "Sorry coach I missed that, but I'll do this for you." Whether you say the words or not, that is what you have done.

Bart, to use your words, If you see ball go throw the net...basket, if you don't...no basket.

[Nevadaref]

Most schools do not fully secure the bottom of their nets. Therefore, a shot that goes through the goal quickly and hits a chain link fence just behind the goal will end up lying on or caught up in the tail of the net on the ground.

The two instances that I mentioned earlier with the ball passing over the crossbar both happened on a field with a 20' tall chain link fence right behind the goal intended to prevent errant shots from going a great distance. It is sometimes difficult to tell if a shot went over the goal, hit the fence, and came to rest on the back of the net, or if the ball entered the goal, zipped down the net, passed out the bottom, hit the fence, and came to rest on the back.

It also doesn't help that this team plays their games at night under less than wonderful lights.