basket good?

[ZEBRA]

I had a simmilar incident last night at a varsity boys game
Large crowd very noisy, my partner who is on the lead calls
a foul on an attemptd 3 in the deep left corner. I see the ball is short so I freeze and am watching the area around where the foul was commited as that is where most of the players were in my field of vision. After a few seconds there is a commotion under the basket and I went over and just began getting everyone lined up for free throws. I asked a player where the ball is and he told me that he rebounded the ball from the shot, lost control of it and it bounced out of his hands on to the floor went up behind the backboard and on to the balcony just behind the backboard.
Of course everyone in the gym saw what happended including the visiting coach (home team player was the kid involved)
and of course he wanted a "T". This is a very closr game and
the home team is in a 3 way tie for first and the visitors are in 2nd place. I go over and explain that neather I or my partner saw what happened nor did I hear the ball strike the floor as it was just too loud in the gym. He took me at my word as I have worked numerous games for both coaches and we went about finnishing up the game.
I will view the game tapes asap to see what I missed, it is just hard to bieleve what we sometimes miss in these games
Carl