Count the bucket? Dead Ball? Act like you didn't see it?

[zebraman]

Originally posted by fletch_irwin_m
The three officials huddled. Prior to this the T signaled for a good basket, and that is what the crowd,teams and coaches thought.
After discussing the situation the officials decided NOT to allow the basket, as the reasoned the arrival of the ball and the foul occured simultaneously. Therefore, once blow, ball became dead. HOWEVER, the thought was that if the ball arrived and was deflected PRIOR to the foul occuring, the basket should be counted.
I am not still not sure on this. I would lean to counting the basket unless it was 100% clear (which in this case it wasn't) that the foul occured prior to the ball being deflected.

You cannot count the basket. A deflection off the shoulder is most definitely NOT a try so the ball was dead as soon as the foul was called. This is not the same as a player who throws an apparent pass from behind the 3-pt line that goes in (this year's rule book makes it so that the official does not have to decide if it was a try and allows for 3 points). In this case, we have an obvious "non-try" so the ball is dead on the whistle.

Z