Foul During AP Throw-In

[Nevadaref]

You did a fine job. You tried to assist without insisting. You are a table official and your role is to assist the game officials.

2-1-2 . . . The game officials shall be a referee and an umpire or a referee and two umpires who shall be assisted by an official timer and scorer.


If the game officials are going to go look up the rule at halftime and still boot it, then they need more help than you can provide.

The guy who should have kept his mouth closed, at least to the officials is the other scorekeeper. He is not the official scorer and is not listed as an assistant to the game officials. His role is basically as a team statistician for the visitors. If he has an issue, he needs to bring it the attention of his team's head coach. The head coach can then make the request of a time-out at the table to question the direction of the AP arrow.
That is how it should have been handled.