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.