Resuming Play Procedure

[Schmidt MJ]

I had virtually this exact same situation last week. My partner and I handled it exactly as you did althought both of us were a little unsure if we did it right. Here's what happened:
Tie game, 2 minutes to go. A1 commits a foul under the basket away from the ball. B1 gets to shoot a 1-and-1, however this is A1's fifth foul. Partner reports foul to table and then notifies coach of A1's disqualification. Coach of A calls his players to the sideline for a quick huddle before sending in a sub. Coach B thinks there is a timeout so his players go to the sideline. Coach A then sends in his sub before the 30 sec. time limit. But continues to huddle with his players. As soon as the sub is beckoned in my partner and I take our places for the free throw. No players are coming onto the court so I blow my whistle and loudly say "there is no timeout, let's play ball. Now the shooter comes to the FT line, but no one else from either team. I patiently waited about 5 more seconds and still no one else comes onto the court. So I bounce the ball to the free thrower. Both my partner and I hold out our fist for a lane violation on A because they do not have anyone in the lower lane spaces. Now befor the thrower shoots the ball, his teammates come rushing out onto the floor down onto the lane spaces. Now we have double violation, cancel the throw and go to the arrow. Arrow belongs to the fouling team. So we award the ball to the fouling team and of course the coach of the throwers team goes ballistic. We tried to calmly explain the double violation to him but all he could say was that his player should get his free throws because the opponents committed the first violation. Any way , to make a long story short, the fouling team ended up losing in O.T. so it didn't affect the outcome of the game. But did we handle it correctly. In talking with a very experienced official who has workd several state tourneys, he said we should have basically ordered the fouling team to occupy the low blocks and if they delayed at all in doing so then hit them with a T right away. Comments.