Trust your partner?

[mick]

Late 4th Boy's Varsity, 2 point game
My good partner and I were working in a little gym (new gym is ready to go next week) where the baseline is literally 6" off the end wall.

I'm at lead (on the court, players under the hoop and a player behind me near the arc) and a pass quickly snapped my way to the player outside the arc. (I am 3' from this player toward the hoop)I turned to see his foot 3" off the arc. As I watched his foot leave the floor (remember my vision is very limited by proximity), I peripherally saw a body hit the deck about 3' to the shooter's left.
As I marked a "Three", my partner blows a whistle for a foul.

At the end of the game , my partner said he felt really bad for calling that foul, even though it was a big push, because he saw my fist going up.

I told him that I was glad he got it cuz that was "three fingers" not a fist, and though I saw a body, I had no idea how he got there.