Table Authority and 5th Foul

[just another ref]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Once a shot is in flight, only a whistle for a PC foul by an airborne shooter causes the ball to become dead.

I think we know what you are saying, but a part of the earlier confusion was about what made the ball dead, the whistle or the horn. With that in mind, perhaps it should be pointed out that in this case, it is not the whistle which makes the ball dead, but the foul.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by just another ref

I think we know what you are saying, but a part of the earlier confusion was about what made the ball dead, the whistle or the horn.

I wasn't addressing just the OP. I was addressing Toren's earlier reply, pasted below. He was of the opinion that a whistle causes a shot in flight to become dead.

Originally Posted by Toren

The Horn doesn't make the ball dead, the whistle makes the ball dead. So if the officials blew their whistles while the ball was in flight, that was on the officiating crew.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Toren

So everyone agrees the officials stopped the game during the flight of the ball?

And, everyone is saying, count the basket and POI is endline throw in? Am I reading everyone correctly?

Yes you are. Violations against the team shooting the ball and PC fouls against an airborne shooter are the only things that would disallow the basket.

[Tio]

The key is that the horn does not stop the game, the whistle/officials stop the game.

If the player is allowed to continue to play due to a book-keeping error you disqualify the player when notified. The basket would score in this case.