Airball shot, ball going up

[mutantducky]

last one- getting these in before tofu tukey day

Ok, so it is fine to catch your own airball or retrieve it if it is a legit shot. (Of course studies have shown that 82.3% of players do not know this.) I was playing a pickup game and I had the ball and just kind of lazily laid it up. I saw that it was going to be short and I jumped up quickly and caught it in air and then shot it back up. Thinking back it might have hit the rim. It might have still been going up, not sure but it was not going to make it. On a shot like that must the offense player wait for the ball to miss or being going down without it hitting the rim?