What would you have done?

[ronny mulkey]

Team A is down by 3 and has the ball under 10 seconds. Team A has no timeouts. A1 drives to basket and makes the basket at 5.8. The ball falls to floor and just sits there. B1 is out of bounds but makes no attempt to pick up the ball. At 3.0 A2 picks up the ball and tosses it to B1 and he makes no attempt to catch it and it rolls off him and back onto the court?

Even though the clock was under 5.0 would you be counting at all? Would you have stopped play when A2 tossed B1 the ball? Would you have T'd A2 when the ball rolled back on the court?

We chose to let the clock run out without stopping play. We had an evaluator come in and tell us that we had to stop play - no T, just kill the play. I pointed out that was exactly what Team A was hoping for.

Appreciate any comments on this.