What would you do?

[walter]

For what it is worth, one of the assistant coaches on the inbounding team was none other than Joe Crawford, the NBA official. After the game, our crew had a chance to talk with him to see if he had any observations, comments, etc. He gave some mechanical and positioning tips, etc. and when asked about "the call", he said that he could see why we felt that the ball was at the disposal and why we called the violation. He also pointed out that he was the only coach who didn't question the call. He pointed out to us that the ball was tapped directly to the inbounder, she didn't have to reach for it, lunge for it, etc. She simply failed to catch it, bobbled it, and unfortunately, the ball deflected off her inbounds. The violation was called because the inbounder was the first to touch the ball inbounds. As for the defensive coach, he wasn't upset at all and why should he be, his team was getting the ball back as a result of the violation.