You make the call

[Hawks Coach]

Sam
If you do not have the ball, you cannot have a try. So losing it after starting a try may not constitute an actual try, but any sense that this particular commencement of a try is continuing must end. so no matter how you slice it, if you have to reacquire the ball, you have to start a new try. If you do this after the foul, it is a try that commenced after the foul. I can't see anything in the rules that says you can be in the normal try motion without the ball.

Now if the motion is continuous rather than a clear reacquisition, you may have some doubt as to whether the try ended when the ball came loose. But that is not what it sounds like occurred here.

On the other hand, my heart says great play. And if you waved off the bucket, Dickie V would say "AAAAh, you gotta be kidding me, that's a terrible call. You can't punish great offense!"