Point of Interruption

[cjclark6cc]

Play happened in my son's 5th grade tournament game today (don't all the crazy ones happen there).

Team A inbounds the ball under team B's basket. Team A shoots into team B's basket and scores. Team B then inbounds the ball and takes it into their back court (going the wrong way). Coaches are yelling about going the wrong way so the referees blow the whistle and stop play with Team B in their backcourt.

Basket counted for Team B and team B was given the ball in their backcourt b/c that's where they were at the point of interruption. Note that the officials had not "called" backcourt

I thought that Team A should have gotten the ball b/c the point of interruption was a violation.

Thoughts?

[deecee]

Originally Posted by cjclark6cc

Play happened in my son's 5th grade tournament game today (don't all the crazy ones happen there).

Team A inbounds the ball under team B's basket. Team A shoots into team B's basket and scores. Team B then inbounds the ball and takes it into their back court (going the wrong way). Coaches are yelling about going the wrong way so the referees blow the whistle and stop play with Team B in their backcourt.

Basket counted for Team B and team B was given the ball in their backcourt b/c that's where they were at the point of interruption. Note that the officials had not "called" backcourt

I thought that Team A should have gotten the ball b/c the point of interruption was a violation.

Thoughts?

Unfortunately this is not correctable. the only thing the officials can do is stop play and point the players at the right basket. POI is where the ball was when the play was stopped NOT where the officials "thought" it should go.

If anything Team A SHOULD have had the ball after they made it in the wrong basket. But once again this is all not correctable.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by cjclark6cc

Play happened in my son's 5th grade tournament game today (don't all the crazy ones happen there).

Team A inbounds the ball under team B's basket. Team A shoots into team B's basket and scores. Team B then inbounds the ball and takes it into their back court (going the wrong way). Coaches are yelling about going the wrong way so the referees blow the whistle and stop play with Team B in their backcourt.

Basket counted for Team B and team B was given the ball in their backcourt b/c that's where they were at the point of interruption. Note that the officials had not "called" backcourt

I thought that Team A should have gotten the ball b/c the point of interruption was a violation.

Thoughts?

if both teams were confused, and they as well as the officials were, then they did it right. You can't go back and retroactively call a violation you missed.
There were multiple points to stop play here.
After A scored into Bs basket, the officials should have made sure that A got the ball. Blow the whistle as soon as B grabs the ball and set it straight.
After that, it's a cluster fark regardless of how you resolve it.

[cjclark6cc]

I understand the error isn't correctable and I know the officials should have blown made sure that the correct team got the ball after the wrong team scored. The officials stopped play during the backcourt violation. When they stopped play the team had the ball in their backcourt. Given that how do you define "point of interruption" here. I ask b/c the team had the ball but they had it "illegally" at that point.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by cjclark6cc

I understand the error isn't correctable and I know the officials should have blown made sure that the correct team got the ball after the wrong team scored. The officials stopped play during the backcourt violation. When they stopped play the team had the ball in their backcourt. Given that how do you define "point of interruption" here. I ask b/c the team had the ball but they had it "illegally" at that point.

Wrong, it wasn't "during" a violation; it was "after" a violation that hadn't been called. They can't go back and call that violation.

They no more had the ball "illegally" at that point than if they had gotten away with a travel right before the whistle.