Delay of game?

[lpneck]

BV game, late in first quarter.

A1 catches the ball in transition by the sideline opposite the table about 30 feet from the basket, my partner, who is T opposite, calls a travel.

I had been L opposite and I am coming back up the sideline now to administer the throw-in. The player who has been called for the travel is holding the ball and has a bit of a confused "I can't believe you called that" look on his face.

I have my hands out to ask for the ball and say "Here you go 22." He looks at me and then decides to roll the ball to my partner, who is jogging down the floor to become new L. It was pretty clear to me that the player did this just to be difficult because he was irritated with the call.

My partner picked the ball up, blew his whistle, and called a delay of game warning.

Here is the thing.... from a game management standpoint, I LOVE the way this was handled. As I said, there is no doubt the kid did this on purpose to be difficult, and yet I don't feel a "T" would have been the appropriate way to handle it (he did, after all, give the ball immediately to an official- just not the one that was asking for it.) When the quarter ended, the coach sent the player out to shake my partners hand and apologized. There were absolutely no incidents the rest of the game- it went as smooth as could be.

The thing that I am a little bit apprehensive about is reporting this as a "delay of game" warning because of the rule change last year that ANY delay of game results in a technical foul after a warning. So if a player had, let's say, crossed the boundary on a throw-in after that, we would have gone straight to a T, and then I am afraid the first warning would have come back to bit us, because it isn't really one of the 4 types of delays.

Just wanted to get other's opinion's on how they might have handled the situation.