Double dribble?

[JugglingReferee]

Hey,

Ok, I had a play that I think is a violation. I'll describe it here.

Player is dribbling, and sees a hole to the bucket and takes it, right down the middle of the key. Just below the FT line, a defender steps in the way, and the player quickly, and athletically (to avoid a PC), picks up his dribble and does the spin move, his first step to get around the defender and the next to take a step closer to the hoop. There was no travel here.

Another defender comes over and might have blocked the shot had the dude shot. At least, that's what I was thinking as trail. And that's what the ball carrier might have thought as well, because he just directs the ball off the backboard (read: his own backboard) and his momentum from having jumped carries him forward, where he catches the "rebound" and puts up an easy 2 points.

To me, the initial time that the ball hit the backboard was not a try, but a mechanism to avoid the defender who had good shot-blocking position. IOW, had he been fouled after he released the ball, I was not going to bail him out by giving him 2 shots. (If he was fouled before he released, I would not have known his intention.)

Did this player commit a violation? [Fed rules.]

The game was at campus rec last night. I play on a team, and after my game, there was one game where they were short an official, so I helepd out. As fate would have it, this guy who did this play, and a girl on his team, I know from refereeing them when they were in high school.