Need Help With A Situation

[The Observer]

This happened to a coach friend of mine and need an officials possible explanation on how to handle.

Team A (my friend's team) was real late coming out of the dressing room at the halftime intermission. In fact as his team was coming back into the gym the official put the ball in play - Team B scored a layup and ball was laid out-of-bounds by the official. The official began a 5-second count.

Seeing this the 5 kids on Team A hustled back onto the court, picked up the ball and did not make a throw-in within 5 seconds - ball back to Team B.

I believe the 2 game officials handled it very unprofessional. But would like to get some opinions on how you all would handle this type of situation. And is/was there any violations at all with what took place.