Blowing whistle...team losing advantage?

[gordon30307]

Originally posted by Mark Dexter

True, however, the offensive player who was pushed was not the ball carrier.

There is a specific casebook play that allows you to delay calling a technical when the opposing team has a fast break. Unfortunately, there is no such allowance here for a personal (contact) foul. Also, the ball is dead when the foul occurs (regardless of when the whistle blows), so a delayed whistle won't help here (at least, not by rule).

A1's shot is cancelled (although if it's close, I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt), B2 is charged with either an intentional personal or a flagrant personal foul (would have to see the contact to judge it), A2 will get two FT's, and then A will inbound the ball at the spot closest to the foul.

I see your point, although you might be taking away an easy scoring opportunity I think you have to whistle the play dead by calling an Intentional Foul to prevent further escalation. There's no gurantee that A1 will make the lay-up and there's a possibility that A2 might retaliate thus causing more problems. By whistling it dead you have an opportunity to get there to prevent further problems. This is just my opinion.