2010 - 2011 Interps

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Originally Posted by ejn1958

This is a correct ruling. The Federation did not make a mistake. You have to look at 2-10 & see what is correctable. This doesn't fall under any of the correctable areas. An officials judgment mistake is not correctable. It's no different than if you handed the ball to the wrong team and they inbounded & scored, and then after the half the officials realized what happened: too late, can't do a thing about it.

This is not erroneoulsy counting or canceling a score. That refers to the scorer counting a basket on a player control foul when the official cancelled the basket, or not counting a made basket as signaled by the official, etc.

The erroneously counting or canceling of a score portion of the correctable errors rule refers to when an official counts a three point shot as a two or vice-versa. The cases you have mentioned are scorer's mistakes which can be corrected at any time. Now if an official counted a basket on a player control foul, that could fall under the case of erroneously counting a basket.

Originally Posted by ejn1958

This is simply an official's mistake...nothing more, nothing less.

What needs to be brought out here is one simple thing; the crew needs to cover this in pre-game & someone alert the other partners when the situation is about to come into play. There is no reason that the officials can't come together prior to the throw-in & say:"hey, we've got 3/10's left, they can't catch & release, only tap, so whose ever primary it is, kill it if it's caught & thrown".

I know the reaction is we should fix it, but just make sure that it doesn't happen. Have a great season!

This isn't really a judgement call in my opinion. This is the officials inadvertently setting aside a rule. No judgement needed to decide if the basket was released before time ran out because there can not be a catch and shoot with .3 on the clock. I don't really understand NFHS' interpretations at times.