Question, Does it count?

[walter]

This sitution brought out a lot of discussion at our board meeting the other night so I thought I'd run it by this crew. This happened in a game one of our officials had and they weren't sure they got it right. A1 releases the ball on try. While the ball is in flight and outside the cylinder, A2 grabs and hangs on the rim (why, we don't know?!?!). Official immediately blows his whistle and bangs A2 with a technical foul. Ball subsequently enters the basket. Official waves off the basket. Question is since the ball was out of A1's hands and clearly in flight, should the basket have counted? I believe the technical foul does not immediately kill the play and, therefore, because the ball was out of A1's hand and clearly in flight, the goal should have counted. However, some other officials on our board felt that the technical foul immediately killed the play. The closest case book play I could find is 10.3.8D.