Strangest call of the tournament

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
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BkbBallRef and JR are wrong on this play.

The T made a mistake by sounding his whistle to soon, but the violation does not disappear. A1 gets three to make two (remember that rule in the NBA). The correct procedure is for the T and the L to give the delayed dead ball signal while A1 is shooting his first free throw. If the first free throw is successful then A1 only gets one more free throw. If the first free throw is not, then A1 gets two more free throws.

[/B][/QUOTE]Bob J.,I can see where you're coming from in your interpretation of the wording of the casebook play.Bart was saying the same thing.The problem that I still have is the literal interpretation of "successful" and "unsuccessful",and the context that they are being used in.If you take Mark's reply above,and if A commits a FT violation before the first FT with the delayed violation being applied is successful or unsuccessful,what exactly are you going to call?If I am reading Mark's reply above correctly,he is saying A1 will still get two more FT's because that FT was unsuccessful.This happens even though A committed the violation that made it unsuccessful,because we now have off-setting violations by each team.If someone can come up with something that doesn't make me give A an extra FT in this case,I'd be the happiest little dinosaur around.It just doesn't seem fair. I'm just wondering if the CB play is worded properly to attain the real intent of the rule.