Continuous Motion

[Toren]

I had a play last night that I'm very anxious to see on tape. I won't get the tape until tomorrow. Here is how it went.

Two man crew for a boys varsity. I'm the lead and action came straight down the middle. Offensive player shoots and the defensive player in trying to block the shot hits the offensive player in the head. I have a whistle and I stand firm to keep all players in my view to make sure this doesn't escalate. The offensive player kind of rolls around a bit and then seems fine and gets up.

As I start to move to report, my partner is signaling to me to count the basket. Wait, what? He made it? Hmm, somewhere in my periphery I thought I saw the ball bounce off the basket. Okay I trust my partner (sort of). I go to report, I count the basket, report the number etc. I go away from the table and the table beckons me back. I go back to the table and they ask me, "Count the basket?" I say my partner says the basket went in so we are going with that. They look at me and say "we didn't see the basket go in." I said neither did I, but my partner did.

It was a blow out game, so one point didn't make any difference at all, but it left me wondering how I could have handled better. Should I have looked at the shot once I had the foul? Or should I have stayed with shooter, like I did, to make sure this didn't escalate and he was okay?

Thanks