Do you make a call here?

[Mark Padgett]

Wow - I never thought this would spark so many comments. One point I was trying to make was that this situation is different, IMHO, than some kid taking a shot after a whistle - which is something we see all the time. In my case, we had a kid who just missed a FT (it was long) and he took a "practice shot" to measure his next shot. I think that's different than just some kid who just had a violation called on him, or perhaps stopped because a timeout was called, tossing the ball up at the basket.

BTW - when a kid shoots after the whistle, I usually say, "Don't shoot after the whistle. It confuses the scorer and he's not too sharp to begin with." It usually gets a laugh, but one time a kid looked at me and said, "that's my Dad....and actually, you're right."