Correctable Error Situation....First Part...

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

The philosophy of the CE rule has been debated many times. Either BktBallRef or Bob Jenkins put it very elegantly. The comment was that the rule is not designed to be fair. It is designed such that each team has an incentive to prevent the error from occurring and get the situation right in the first place. Otherwise, what at first looks to be a potential benefit to their team may well come back to hurt them later. That can clearly be seen in the situation which you have posed.

The team which committed the technical foul earlier should have pointed out to the officials that this foul was incorrectly not being counted as a team foul. There was significant time to do this prior to the 7th team foul of the half being committed. Instead it is possible that this team thought, "Oh good, they aren't counting the T as a team foul. That's good for us." However, later it came back to cost them.

And I totally disagree with this line of thinking. Team A is more likely to have known that they were supposed to shoot and purposely waited until after its possession to point out the error.

I'm of the opinion that once Team A scores a basket they should no longer be allowed to go back an shoot free throws.