What's the call?

[Tim Roden]

I had a situation happen my first summer officiating basketball that has had me racking my brain ever since to know if I made the right call. I am not talking just rules but etiquette of how you call the game. Situation, A1 shooting over b1, players are 10 feet apart when the shot goes up but because they are both jumping at each other, they collide half way. Kind of looks like /\ except more pronounced. I felt that because a1 wasn't exactly virtical and was trying to draw a foul by jumping into the b1, that I didn't call the foul. b1 was not exactly virtical either. My partner, clear on the other side of the floor, jumped all over me during the next time out about no calling that and said I should have had a call against the defense. So my question is this. Should I have had a call against the defense for meeting in the middle on the shot or was my no call the right call. BTW, my position on the play was perfect, six feet away from the collision looking right between them.