What do you have?
 

Team A is down by one point with 11.5 seconds remaining in the 4th quarter. Ball is inbounded on the end line. Team B applies full court pressure. A1 and A2 pass the ball back and forth between each other in the back court to avoid a defensive trap.

With 2 seconds left, A1, still in the backcourt, heaves the ball towards his team's basket. As the ball is in the air, the buzzer sounds. The ball goes in the basket.

What do you have?

A made 3 point shot at the buzzer and Team A win by 4? :confused:

Team A 3 pt. shot good. 2 point win. No 10 sec. violation was called or am I missing something? :rolleyes:

While it is an impressive shot, I don't think there is any provision to give them 5 points for it.

Would I have the guts to call it?
 

Technically a backcourt violation, but only if my hand count hit ten seconds. I wouldn't use the clock to make the call.

Basket good.

Team control ended on the release (after 9.5 seconds) so the 10 second count was no longer in effect. No violation.

Psht...it's obvious you aren't reading the right rule book. ;):D

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This sitch came up when I was talking with some reffing buddies of mine in between rec league games on Saturday. One of them had this happen to him in a game earlier this year.

He waved the basket off and called a back court violation. When I asked him why he did that -- since team control ends on a try for goal and thus you can't have a backcourt violation -- he backtracked and said, in his opinion, the player wasn't really attempting a shot, just heaving the ball in the general direction of the goal.

I just said okay.

He obviously doesn't ref MS games

More like he's never seen a basketball game in his life. A team down by a point and heaving it with little time left in the game? A play you see at every freakin' level.

Ego can't admit he kicked it

I think it was more of him covering his tracks when he found out that, by rule, he was wrong. Trying to use a different rule to justify the call.

Officiating the game situation
 

Case Book 9.8.A "While the ball is in the air traveling from backcourt to frontcourt, the 10-second count is reached."
RULING: Violation by Team A as the ball has not gained frontcourt location.

I made this call, years ago, when the ball was definitely passed at the 9-second point in my count, and traveled in the air to a 12 count, without gaining frontcourt location.

In the OP, the game situation trumps this call, because of the time remaining, and the obvious shot attempt. There is no way that it was not a shot.

That case play involves a pass. Camron was right, team control ends as soon as the shot is released, so the 10 second count would terminate. If the shot is blocked, and A1 recovers, he gets a new 10 seconds (a highly unlikely scenario due to the fact that no one takes this shot with more than 10 seconds on the clock.).

The game situation does not trump the call, although it may inform your decision regarding whether it is a shot or pass. I think that's what you meant, but I wanted to state that if this was an actual violation, the game situation shouldn't matter.