fouled while "shooting" at wrong basket

[Grail]

Originally Posted by tmp44

Why blow this whistle? What part of this makes what happened a dead ball, violation, etc.? Would you do this if someone accidentally tipped the ball into his own basket on a rebound? I know one thing, if I'm a coach and earlier in the game you blew the whistle, stopping the clock, because some kid was an idiot and shot in the wrong basket, if late in the game my kid accidentally tipped in a rebound and say, put my team down 1, with only a few seconds to go, I'd be screaming bloody murder for you to blow the whistle and stop the clock.

The rationale for the whistle is to correct the direction of play.

An accidental tip-in is very different. In this play, all players are going the correct direction. The stoppage is not required as everyone knows which team should not get the ball, and which way they should be going.

In the play described, it is likely that the wrong team will grab the ball out of the net, inbound it and begin traveling the wrong direction.

As for the coach crabbing, what else is new.