correctable error

[Mark Dexter]

Originally posted by rainmaker
I just don't understand why we do all the rigamarole with the clock, and the fouls and so on. Why isn't the T enough? If the infraction happens when A steps out of bounds with the ball, or even when the ball is touched inbounds, then it would be dead and there wouldn't be a basket to cancel, and most of the fouls would be moot, since they would be during a dead ball.

A puts up a basket to go up by three.
5 seconds remain on the clock.
At 3 seconds, A picks up the ball.
At 2 seconds, A inbounds the ball.
At 0 seconds, you have a horn and an "Oh, crap!" whistle from the covering offficial.
Team A gets a technical, but team B only gets two shots.
End of game (except, of course, for the T's you'll have to call on B's coach!)